• Kansas’s share of national green economic recovery program:
$881 million (based on combining state’s population and gross domestic product).
• Kansas’s net job creation through green economic recovery program:
19,142 jobs (based on Kansas unemployment figures in June 2008).
• Impact on Kansas’s labor market: Kansas’s
unemployment rate reduced to 3.2 percent in two years from 4.4 percent in June 2008.
• The vast majority of jobs created through a green economic recovery program are in the same areas of employment that people already work in today. These include
jobs for machinists, truck drivers, electricians, roofers, welders, chemists, engineers, etc.
• Kansas’s green infrastructure investment allocations:
o Energy efficient building retrofits: $352 million.
o Mass transit and freight rail: $176 million.
o Smart grid: $88 million.
o Wind power, solar power, and advanced biofuels: $264 million
