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Published July 29, 2021 at 8:20 PM MDT Incentives & Instincts is a monthly series on A New Angle in which Justin Angle, marketing professor at the University of Montana College of Business, chats with prominent economist Bryce Ward about some of the broader issues facing our society. This month, we try to make sense of the labor markets, both nationally and here in Montana, and attempt to separate signal from noise.
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iStock Four states in the Mountain West are opting out of the federal government's $300-a-week pandemic unemployment compensation. The Republican governors of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming announced their decisions this week. They follow Montana, which last week became the first state in the nation to drop the unemployment supplement that the American Rescue Plan extended into September. The governors cite labor shortages and point to their state's low unemployment rates. The added payments will end in the second half of June. Because of positive job growth, we will be discontinuing the federal un...
Yellowstone County among tops in state for growth Yellowstone County grew ten percent over the last decade, according to census data and last updated 2021-05-10 10:28:44-04 Last month, 2020 census data revealed Montana will regain a 2nd congressional district for the first time in nearly 30 years. Gallatin County has grown 30 percent since 2010. Yellowstone County grew 10 percent and is one of eight counties in the estimated 10 to 16 percent range in the last decade. Economic consultant and University of Montana professor Dr. Bryce Ward says oil, coal, agriculture and outdoors contributed ...
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits last week dropped to a fresh one-year low, suggesting layoffs were subsiding as a reopening economy unleashes pent-up demand. Fred Katayama reports. Montana will opt out of several federal programs that helped boost unemployment payments at the same time it offers $1,200 one-time payments to those starting new jobs. Itâs an attempt to both incentivize and push the roughly 10,000 people the state estimates are still out of work because of the pandemic, and help employers who are desperate to find employees. The $15 millio...