Hundreds of USDA jobs headed to KC after ‘united effort’ by Kansas and Missouri
By Bryan Lowry, Steve Vockrodt and Allison Kite, McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS) WASHINGTON — Hundreds of lucrative federal jobs are headed to the Kansas City area after the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced plans Thursday to relocate two research agencies to the region. A two-state proposal from Kansas and Missouri beat out 135 other bids to become new headquarters for the Economic Research