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The first report after President Trump fired his head employment statistician was fraught with technical issues — and more dismal below-estimate employment numbers.

While core inflation increased, Montana's unemployment rate held steady at 2.8% in July, making it the 10th straight month with a rate below 3%.

Out of 100,000 Montanans not working, about 10,400 are not looking for a job, and the state’s looking for answers as to why, a new study says.

A new survey sheds some light on the people behind Nevada’s elevated unemployment rate, which has consistently remained higher than all other states and higher than prepandemic levels.

Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration says Montana needs to do more to make sure its workforce development programs are all working together.

The employment situation is worsening, as the U.S. economy added only 73,000 jobs last month. Worse, a whopping 258,000 jobs were taken out of the economy in revisions to the two previous jobs reports.

With a June unemployment rate of 2.8%, unchanged from last month, Montana has now seen nine straight years of rates under 3%, and four years below 3.4%.

The construction industry will see the biggest drop in employment, with an estimated 861,000 U.S.-born and 1.4 million immigrant jobs lost, according to the analysis.

Labor advocacy groups warned that President Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce would be impossible to undo.

Hundreds who work for the Oregon Department of Transportation got notice that they’re being laid off in what Gov. Tina Kotek called a preventable emergency and the largest round of layoffs in the state government’s history.