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Article: Kansas City Area, Midwest Enjoy Strong Job Growth

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ As part of a widespread surge in Midwest employment, the job growth rate in the Kansas City area has soared to the fourth highest in the nation, a survey shows.

The metropolitan area added 38,500 jobs in February, a 4.73 percent increase to 852,900, according to the latest monthly survey by Arizona State University.

The yearly addition of jobs is the equivalent of adding four times the workforce of Sprint Corp., the city's largest private employer.

Kansas City is not an island of good fortune but part of a rebounding region, once dismissed as "The Rust Belt" because of its declining steel mills and lagging auto factories.

Today, nine of the 20 top fastest-growing ...

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