Montana Legislative Services Fiscal Analyst Stephanie Morrison has been studying the major sources of revenue for the state of Montana during the past fiscal year and says one source stood out significantly.
The federal government is still attempting to balance the cuts that came with sequestration earlier this year, but in doing so, it has drawn the ire of nearly all of the rocky mountain states.
Paul Polzin and Patrick Barkey of the University of Montana's Bureau of Business and Economic Research will be traveling around Montana during the first week of August to discuss the projected decline of federal funds into the state and to discuss whether or not the bureau's economic predictions from last year are on the right track...
Montana's unemployment rate has seen a steady decline this year, moving from 5.7 percent in January to the recently announced 5.4 percent rate for the month of May.