TOPEKA – The labor force in Kansas swelled in November, forcing down the state’s November seasonally adjusted unemployment rate to 4.0 percent,a decline from 4.1 percent in October and decreased from 4.2 percent in November 2014, the Kansas Department of Labor reported this week. The sunflower state fared better than the nation as a whole. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national jobless was unchanged from October to November at 5.0 percent.