Kansas Republican Governor Sam Brownback
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Gov. Sam Brownback once pledged that his 2012 tax cuts would lead to a surge of employment on the Kansas side of the state line in the Kansas City area.

The newest jobs report from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that’s not happening. By a long shot.

The data, in fact, are extremely discouraging for Brownback and the few remaining people who thought his tax cuts would act like a jobs magnet for the Sunflower State.

The bottom line: Missouri gained employment almost five times faster than Kansas in the metro region over the full year from February 2015 to February 2016.

And because the Missouri portion of employment is slightly larger than the Kansas side to start with, the actual number of jobs added was more than six times higher in the Show-Me State.

The numbers:

▪ The Missouri portion of the area added 13,900 jobs over that 12-month period, up 2.4 percent.

▪ The Kansas side crept up […]