In Wyoming, the study says the earned income equivalent for a family with both parents not working and two dependents, including unemployment and ACA benefits, was $79,294 last year.
For many Wyomingites, making a living – just to get by – in the Cowboy State often means holding down two or more jobs.
The union that represents 750 grocery workers in Wyoming said when Albertsons and Safeway merged in 2014, lower prices & higher wages were promised. Instead, hundreds of workers lost jobs and retirements while food deserts widened.
Wyoming officials see attracting remote workers to the Cowboy State as a way to diversify its labor pool, while remote workers already here say the outdoors and quality of life are why they moved here.
Tim Giersch with Papa Johns in Cheyenne would hire 20 full- and part-time people today if he could. But like many other Wyoming businesses, a lack of available workforce has forced the stores to cut hours and close earlier.
The $1.1 billion meat processing facility that was looking at moving to Cheyenne will not likely happen due to the city’s lack of infrastructure.
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The coronavirus pandemic and related business restrictions cost the state almost 27,000 jobs in the second quarter of the year, according to a state agency.
HollyFrontier’s Cheyenne Refinery will shift from refining petroleum to producing a diesel fuel made out of soybean oil, the company announced Monday.
In 2019, Wyoming celebrated the 150th anniversary of women’s suffrage, welcomed back members of the Black 14 and bemoaned the worsening coal crisis.
Wyoming’s coal market has suffered devastating layoffs and mine closures in recent years, and by all accounts, the industry is shrinking.
A low unemployment rate is creating some difficult situations for Cody’s restaurants.
