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The generally sleepy economy of the state’s second-largest city is getting a shakeup, thanks to surging employment and incomes.

The loss was partly blamed on nurses strikes in New York City, since health care has been one of the few bright spots in past reports — but many other industries contributed to the unexpected decline.

A state task force is going to be weighing whether current rules for licensing occupations are a good fit for today’s needs.

In January, the U.S. economy added more than double the number of jobs economists had predicted, but revisions slashed job gains for 2025 by nearly 70%.

Darrell Ehrlick (Daily Montanan) Montana’s economy is likely to follow a path similar to 2025, though the chance of a recession is more unlikely in 2026 than previously anticipated, the Bureau of Business and Economic Research said at a seminar this week. Director ...

Household incomes have grown in nearly every state over the past 50 years, but a new study concludes that growth has been uneven across the country.

Montana's unemployment rate ticked up to 3.3 percent in November while core inflation rose 2.6 percent over the last 12 months, the state announced this week.

Montana's minimum wage increased to $10.85 as of January 1, but not every business is bracing for impact.

Jesse Ramos writes, "Without enough real, breadwinner jobs, young Americans are pushed toward debt-financed degrees that too often fail to deliver stability, while the skilled trades that once built the middle class sit sidelined by a system that won’t let work begin."

September unemployment rates rose in 25 states and fell in 21 compared with last year, the government reported Dec. 11 in a shutdown-delayed analysis.