While Montana's unemployment rate has flirted with historic lows several times in the past two years, it finally crossed the threshold in February, falling to 2.4%.
Based on Florida's 'Stop WOKE Act," the bill would ban training that might make state employees feel “guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress.”
Missoula's unemployment rate fell to 3% in January and added 1,800 jobs over the prior year, the Montana Department of Labor and Industry said Thursday.
A company that manufactures natural soap and skin-care products in Missoula plans to grow its workforce in the coming year, and it's doing so on the heels of a large contract to produce a run of shampoo bars.
A business management and consulting firm based in Missoula plans to expand its workforce in the coming months in a push to accommodate its growing base of local and national clients.
The latest effort to make Montana a “right-to-work” state was tabled in a House committee Wednesday less than a week after hundreds of union members packed the Capitol in opposition to House Bill 448.