Of the nation’s 100 largest labor markets, only 13 have managed to bring job numbers back to where they were before the recession.
Kansas City is among the 87 markets still clawing its way back. The area’s private-sector job count of 807,100 remains nearly 5 percent — 41,300 jobs — less than the pre-recession annual average in 2006.
That puts Kansas City below the median. It ranks 56th in terms of five-year percent change and 79th in terms of five-year change in job numbers, according to an analysis by On Numbers, a blog affiliated with the Kansas City Business Journal...