Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is calling for some form of federal guaranteed income for, not just the poor, but for all Americans. Sort of a minimum wage salary.
It’s easier to just pass out benefits and cash than it is to create programs where the person receiving those benefits has to have some skin in the game.
One of the most telling areas is education. More women than ever are graduating from college with degrees. Not just white women either. All groups increased.
Montana’s unemployment rate rose slightly in July to 4 percent, an increase of 0.1 percentage point. Overall, Montana’s unemployment rate has fallen 0.6 percentage points in the past year.
Buy a Big Mac, fries and a drink at McDonald’s and the items you throw away — the cup, straw, napkin, paper, placemat, etc. — are more costly than the meal.
According to Department of Labor and Industry Senior Economist Barbara Wagner, February was another strong month for job growth in Montana.
"Montana's unemployment rate was at 4.3 percent in February, that's down a tenth of a percentage point from last month, and that's just a continuation of the lower and lower unemployment rates that we've been seeing throughout the last three years,"