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For Immediate Release:
May 30, 2023
Contact:
Cassie Nichols
[email protected]
ICYMI: Want a Good-Paying Job Minus a 4-Year College Degree? Here's What
Kansas is Doing for You.
KEY QUOTE: "My administration works every day to grow our economy so that Kansans in communities both large and small can find the kind of jobs they can raise a family on," Governor Kelly said. "This is just one more milestone that shows we are being recognized around the globe for creating a climate where businesses can thrive."
Want a good-paying job minus a 4-year college degree? Here's what Kansas is doing for you.
Jason Tidd, Topeka Capital-Journal
May 25, 2023
- "A lot of work is going on around the cosmosphere of not only recruiting businesses, but also ensuring that those businesses have talent and then twice-fold keeping our our talent here in Kansas and recruiting talent to and back to Kansas," said assistant secretary of commerce Mike Beene.
- Gov. Laura Kelly and Lt. Gov. David Toland, who is also commerce secretary, have made economic development a priority of their administration. On Monday, the Kelly administration announced that it had reached more than $16 billion in private sector investment since 2019. Those 910 economic development projects come with 57,000 jobs created or retained.
- They have particularly promoted two megaprojects and a third major investment — plus educational partnerships designed to meet workforce needs.
- "Our community and technical colleges here in Kansas are one of our great assets," [Mike Beene] said. "They're really linked to their community based businesses or their regional businesses and make sure that they're aligning their career and technical ed programs, their classes that they teach, their labs that they teach, with the need of regional businesses."
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