Inside a Kansas town’s plan to lure people to the area — offering no income tax, free child care and free college

This tiny Kansas town of 2,100 — located 100 miles from Wichita, Topeka and Tulsa — has a gutsy plan to reverse its slow fade from the map.

Once a proud oil boomtown — home to the first commercial well west of the Mississippi, marked by a towering 65-foot derrick — Neodesha has been hemorrhaging residents since its Standard Oil refinery shut down in 1971.

“The population was cut in half overnight,” Mayor Devin Johnson told CNBC, painting a grim picture of the town’s decades-long slump.

Read more of the full article from the New York Post here.