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Understanding Wyoming’s Growing Education and Employment Database

by: Katelynd Faler, Senior Economist

Figure 1: Average Wage and Number of Students from the 2009/10 Cohort by County Working Primarily in Colorado in Calendar Year 2011
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In 2013, the Research & Planning (R&P) section of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services received a Workforce Data Quality Initiative (WDQI) Grant from the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor for the purposes of building and maintaining a longitudinal database profiling the state workforce. The purpose of this article is to familiarize readers with new data available from Research & Planning that helps answer questions about education and employment in Wyoming.

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Wyoming Unemployment Rate Unchanged at 4.1% in June 2015

by: David Bullard, Senior Economist

U.S. and Wyoming Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate
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The Research & Planning section of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services reported that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged from May to June at 4.1%. Wyoming’s unemployment rate was slightly lower than its June 2014 level of 4.4% and significantly lower than the current U.S. unemployment rate of 5.3%.

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August 2015, Vol. 52 No. 8

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