The unemployment rate for Kansas, as a whole, increased 0.8 percentage point from December 2014 to January 2015. All of the Kansas MSAs experienced increases, also, with a 0.7 percentage point in the Wichita MSA, 1.0 in Topeka, 0.6 in Manhattan, and 0.8 percentage point in Lawrence.
A slide presentation is available with additional employment and unemployment data for Kansas and its four metro areas.
