There were more out-of-state visitors to Montana in 2015, but overall, they spent less money than the previous year, according to a new report from the University of Montana Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research.
President Barack Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline earlier today and Montana legislators Senator Steve Daines and Governor Steve Bullock are responding.
Economist Patrick Barkey from the Bureau of Business and Economic Research says that the predicted growth rate for the Montana economy isn’t as rosy as predicted a year and a half ago.
A research study recently conducted at the University of Montana found that nonresident travel and tourist spending continues to increase in the Treasure State.
Montana Governor Steve Bullock announced today that personal income growth soared in the Treasure State, particularly in the last quarter of 2014 and the first quarter of 2015.
Montana’s unemployment rate has been falling since 2011, but it wasn’t until last month that it fell so low that economists consider it to be “abnormal.”