The Center for Economic Development and Business Research at Wichita State University has estimated that approximately 980 unemployed workers in Kansas will leave unemployment as a result of the expiration of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) at the end of last year, which will only affect the unemployment rate about 0.1 percent.
In the Wichita metropolitan area, 1,251 workers were receiving unemployment compensation from the EUC program in the third quarter of 2013. The center estimates that approximately 175 unemployed workers are anticipated to exit the labor force, while 75 are anticipated to become reemployed sooner than if they had remained on the EUC program.