Unemployment

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Surprise, surprise! Montana’s unemployment rate has dropped yet again…Will it end soon?

Montana has received over $5 million in grants to help the long-term unemployed earn a living while learning news skills for a permanent job.

According to The World Forum, there are 1.2 billion youth in the world aged 15 to 24. They comprise 17% of the world's population and 40% of the world's unemployed. As summer begins here in Montana, the the unemployment rate for youth age 16 to 24 ranges from 14% to just over 22%.

With a .01% rise in the unemployment rate, Montana is back to a 5.7% unemployment rate, right where things stood in November 2012.

A new set of unemployment numbers have hit the presses, and it looks like Montana is on a stronger footing this month. The state's unemployment rate dropped 0.2 points to 6.2 % while the national rate dipped 0.3% to 7.8%.

New Vann's CEO Jerry O'Connell says a Bozeman businessman is very interested in purchasing all five of the Vann's Appliance stores in Montana.

The Montana Department of Labor and Industry has published the State's unemployment numbers for the month of August.
The report shows unemployment holding relatively flat through the summer at 6.3%, almost identical to what it was in May, but much better than the national rate of 8...

The National Unemployment numbers for February  were recently released and the country average was around Eight Point Three Percent, but Montana is doing a lot better. Unemployment numbers are down for the state of Montana for a seventh straight month.