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Oil prices continue climb but Wyoming oil and gas jobs down 4,500 from Jan 2020
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Yves here. This post takes a contrarian view of the preoccupation with home ownership and argues that single family homes increase inequality and the rate of climate change. Its authors contend that the idea that home ownership reduces inequality is largely a conservative myth.
I strongly encourage you to read it in full, with an eye to the notion that knee-jerk reactions against some of its arguments are likely to reflect a personal attachment to the notion of homeownership….which as this piece stresses, is a fairly recent cultural inculcation.
No less than the Economist magazine recently deemed the push for widespread homeownership as a massive policy failure, and also described how that demand for home-ownership was stoked by messaging and policies, such as tax breaks for developers and buyers.
By Brendan LaChance on February 23, 2021
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CASPER, Wyo. Wyoming saw total sales and use tax collections from the mining sector reach $63.4 million in calendar year 2020, according to the Feb. 2021 Wyoming Economic Indicators report from the state’s Economic Analysis Division.
That is $48.3 million less (-43.3%) than the five-year average, according to the report.
The state saw $4.8 million in 4% sales and use tax collections from the mining sector in Dec. 2020. That was an increase of $1.5 million from Nov. 2020, but $5.6 million less than what was collected in Dec. 2019.
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4% sales and use tax collections from the lodging sector was $1.4 million in Dec. 2020, which the report states was 9% less than in Dec. 2019.
State economic analysis shows some boosts from wind development, oil prices; mining still suffering By Greg Hirst on February 9, 2021
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CASPER, Wyo Indicators from Wyoming’s Economic Analysis Division released Monday confirm that mining has been by far the hardest hit sector of the state’s economy in the past year.
January’s Wyoming Insight report, which tracks energy index and business indicators in the state, shows an overall improvement from December, with wind farm activity boosting collections and crude oil prices having its best showing in 11 months.
January sales & use tax collections from the mining sector were down $5.6 million (-54.0%) compared to January last year, said Dylan Bainer, the division’s principal economist. The industry also lost 5,900 jobs year-over-year in January.
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