Unemployment

As the entire country is in the process of recovering from the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, Wyoming has fared well overall when it comes to unemployment rate recovery. But then when you break it down to cities, Cheyenne has made one of the best recoveries from unemployment in the entire U.S.

The nation has now recovered roughly one-third of the 22 million jobs it lost to the pandemic recession.

A recent report conducted by state economists found that Wyoming's economic health is at its lowest since economists began tracking it in January of 2005. The Wyoming Economic Analysis Division released the report Monday afternoon and says that Wyoming's economic health index is a reported 95...

Despite the national unemployment rate being currently listed at 13.3 percent, Wyoming's unemployment claims are recovering fast and among the fastest in the nation at doing so.

Hires declined 31% to 3.5 million.

Security experts say the bulk of the fraud appears to be committed by criminals using stolen data.

That represents 16% of Wyoming’s total workforce eligible for the unemployment insurance program.

The government said Friday that the economy added 2.5 million jobs last month.

It shows that scattered rehiring is offsetting only some of the ongoing layoffs with the economy mired in a recession.

The national jobless rate was 14.7% in April.