LETT ER FROM T H E GOVE R N OR As our children and grandchildren, along with our friends and other family members, leave Kansas to enjoy greater pay and career opportunities, we face a struggling economy, threatening our collective quality of life for generations to come. This is not acceptable. The world is changing and accelerating every day, and therefore with urgency, we too must change. It is time for Kansas to once again “punch above our weight class.” Recognizing the decline in our state, our local economic development professionals asked for a new economic development strategy to build upon the legacy of the Redwood-Krider report, our last comprehensive economic development strategy, published in 1986. My administration, through the leadership at the Kansas Department of Commerce, made developing a Framework for Growth, a top priority. We also wanted to make sure this is a Kansas strategy and we were successful by using a public process where over 2,000 Kansans were engaged to help guide the direction of the Framework for Growth.
The world is changing and accelerating every day, and therefore with urgency, we too must change. KANSAS FRAMEWORK FOR GROWTH
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