December 21, 2020
Michelle Vigil
An educator who provides financial literacy education to the state’s residents has received the University of Wyoming Extension’s top honor.
Michelle Vigil, who is based in Campbell County and serves northeast Wyoming, received the organization’s Jim DeBree Award. The award is named in honor of the retired Wyoming extension administrator and given to those who demonstrate a high level of professionalism, performance and leadership within their program areas and communities.
“Making unwise money decisions can alter one’s life for the worse,” says Mary Martin, an extension community development educator based in Teton County and a nominator. “Michelle’s specialty area is providing financial literacy education with resources.”
December 14, 2020
A new University of Wyoming Extension publication highlights the early effects of COVID-19 on Wyoming employment.
It’s the first of a series of publications and is available for download as a PDF, HTML or ePub here.
The mining and natural resources and leisure and hospitality sectors both experienced unemployment rates above 45 percent, with mining and natural resources hitting a high of 47 percent in July and leisure and hospitality hitting 46 percent in May, according to the report.
Author Anders Van Sandt, in UW’s Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, says his goal is to assist communities and their leaders in recognizing vulnerabilities of the labor force, and this analysis shows some industries are affected more than others.