Tag: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Black Activists Praise Employment Boom That Defies COVID-19 Challenges
The latest federal employment report revealed yet another month of recovery for the American workforce. Members of the Project 21 black leadership network credited the Trump Administration for policies that have brought back jobs – particularly in black communities – after businesses were devastated earlier this year by COVID-19 lockdowns. “The news just keeps getting better. The free-market…
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Worst Business Plunge
It’s been reported before that the economic impacts on Montana of the COVID-19 crisis has been greater than the Great Recession, by Dr. Pat Barkey, Director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, UM, but a most recent published report in the Montana Business Quarterly, starkly emphasizes the contrast. According to Barkey, “The economy…