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The state’s Department of Workforce Services reports Wyoming’s seasonally adjusted rate was 2.9 percent. That’s much lower than the current U.S. unemployment rate of 4.1 percent.
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More layoffs are coming to surface coal miners in Sweetwater County, just about eight months after the first round of layoffs.
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Sublette County is test driving a unique way to fund and expand access to childcare as many families in Wyoming grapple with a worsening shortage of daycare centers.
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After years of speculation, the social media giant says the data center will go online in 2027.
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About seven hundred Genesis Alkali union workers are starting the week with new contracts signed Sunday evening, just hours before the old contracts expired. It includes wage increases, but the main theme is upping safety standards.
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The only statewide daily paper, the Casper Star Tribune, now produces just three days a week. Many other papers are even less frequent.
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More local meat, produce and grains will be hitting food bank shelves this summer thanks to a more than $500,000 Local Food Purchasing Agreement Grant for the Food Bank of Wyoming from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The goal of the funding is to buy more food from small-scale Wyoming producers and distribute it to folks in need across the state.
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Film event highlights efforts to expand ecotourism through fly fishing on the Wind River ReservationFor the last seven years, Shoshone and Arapaho Fish and Game Director Arthur Lawson has been working to create more economic development and ecotourism on the Wind River Reservation through a bit of an unexpected avenue: fly fishing. Those efforts are the subject of a series of short films that will play at the Center for the Arts in Jackson on June 4.
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How much money does someone need to make ends meet in Wyoming? An updated self-sufficiency standard and interactive calculator from the Wyoming Women’s Foundation aims to answer that question pretty specifically by taking into account factors like location, family size and age of kids.
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Wyoming qualifies as a childcare desert, with a 34 percent gap between the needs of families and the number of daycare centers available. To help the problem, Wyoming legislators are considering a bill that would lift restrictions on how many families a nanny can serve.
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The Cheyenne Workforce Center held a teen job fair earlier this week. Wyoming added nearly 5,000 jobs in the fourth quarter of last year, and employers are keen to fill those positions.