Montana outperforms U.S. on jobs
| September 8, 2008 |  View for printing |
While the nation's unemployment rate hit its highest point in five years Friday, the jobless picture in Montana remains much better, largely because of its natural-resource economy, a state economist said.
"If you look at the states that are doing well in 2008, they tend to be oil- and gas-producing states or agriculture states," said Barb Wagner of the Department of Labor's Research and Analysis Bureau.
By MIKE DENNISON Of the Gazette State Bureau
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