The Wichita Eagle, Kan., Mark McCormick Column.

By Mark McCormick, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 12--OUTSOURCED JOBS NEED TO BE REINED IN: Bravo to our legislators for acting to retrieve Kansas jobs from India. Legislators have told the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services to renegotiate its $1.7 million-a-year contract with Arizona-based eFunds Corp. to administer the food stamp program.

That means that as of Jan. 1, workers outside the United States no longer will handle Kansans' phoned-in questions about food stamps. And people who receive cash assis