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The Montana Department of Labor and Industry and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday morning that Montana reached a record low 2.5 percent unemployment rate for 2021. The number of unemployed Montanans is at its lowest level since BLS began the data series in 1976.

It was a case of bad news and good news on Tuesday as Governor Steve Bullock held another press conference from Helena that featured state health officials with some alarming statistics.

The financial website Wallet Hub said in a recent survey that Missoula, Montana is the U.S. city with the 20th best unemployment rate recovery in the month of July.

Montana, like all the states, is experiencing record unemployment claims due to the COVID 19 pandemic.

Montana Senator Steve Daines conducted a telephone town hall meeting from his office in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday with listeners throughout the state focusing on the current coronavirus pandemic

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Montana’s unemployment rate increased slightly by one-tenth of a percent for the month of August, to 4.3 percent.

Montana’s Unemployment rate held still through June in what Montana Department of Labor Economist Barbara Wagner described as a “boring” report. "I have to say that this month may be the most boring unemployment rate information we've ever issued, because the unemployment rate is exactly the same  as it was last month," Wagner said...

Montana's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose slightly in February.

Today, January 26, the Montana Department of Labor and Industry announced that Montana continued to hover at four percent unemployment during the last month of 2015. According to senior economist Barbara Wagner, that static rate is really good news...