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By Jim Angell, Cowboy State Daily
Wyoming’s unemployment rate fell slightly in April from March, following annual seasonal trends, according to the state Department of Workforce Services.
The department’s Research and Planning Division, in its regular unemployment report, said unemployment rates fell from 5.9% in March to 5.6% in April.
“From March to April, unemployment rates followed their normal seasonal pattern and fell in most counties,” the report said. “Unemployment rates often decrease in April as seasonal job gains occur in construction, retail trade and professional and business services.”
According to the report, the numbers meant that 16,467 members of Wyoming’s labor force of 293,373 were looking for jobs. The April figures show an increase of about 800 workers with jobs in April over March.
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By Jim Angell, Cowboy State Daily
While Wyoming has not felt the sting of gasoline shortages seen in the last week in the eastern U.S., its gas prices are still rising in advance of the upcoming three-day holiday.
Figures provided in the regular report by GasBuddy.com, a company that tracks gasoline prices throughout the country, showed that the average price of a gallon of unleaded gasoline in Wyoming on Friday was about $2.97 per gallon, compared to a national average of almost $3.04.
Nationally, prices have gone up by 7.3 cents per gallon in the last week, due in part to disruptions in fuel deliveries caused by the shutdown of a major pipeline feeding the East Coast.