{"id":178,"date":"2012-06-29T21:07:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T21:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.websitefix.net\/clients\/Generic\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2020-09-30T17:38:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:38:45","slug":"economy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Montana3\/NorthwestClientServices\/?page_id=178","title":{"rendered":"Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEMOGRAPHICS  \/ ECONOMY &amp; DEMOGRAPHICS<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nMontana\u2019s economy has been outperforming the national economy since the turn of  the century, including having better performance during the 2007 recession and  a faster, stronger economic recovery exiting the recession. Montana\u2019s outperforming  economy is evidenced in nearly every economic metric: Montana\u2019s unemployment  rate has been lower than the U.S. unemployment rate since the 2001 recession  and has remained about 1.5 percentage points lower than the U.S. rate throughout  2014. Montana has the 8th fastest GDP growth among states over both the last  five years and ten years (ending in 2013), and Montana\u2019s GDP growth was faster  than the U.S. average in every year since 2000, except for 2012. Montana\u2019s  personal income growth has also outpaced the national average, ranking as the  6th fastest over the last five years and 7th over the last ten years. Montana  has the fifth fastest wage growth among states for both the five and ten year  timeframes. Montana\u2019s economy is healthy, posting above average job growth and  improvement in all economic indicators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Montana  Department of Labor &amp; Industry<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lmi.mt.gov\/\">http:\/\/lmi.mt.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>US Census Bureau<\/strong><br \/>\nClick on the links below to access the US Census Bureau\u2019s Quick Facts community  demographics data. In this area of the Census Bureaus web site you can get a  quick snapshot of up to the minute information about any community or town in  the United States as compiled by the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>US Census Bureau Quick Facts<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/US\/PST045217\">https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/US\/PST045217<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEMOGRAPHICS \/ ECONOMY &amp; DEMOGRAPHICS Montana\u2019s economy has been outperforming the national economy since the turn of the century, including having better performance during the 2007 recession and a faster, stronger economic recovery exiting the recession. Montana\u2019s outperforming economy is evidenced in nearly every economic metric: Montana\u2019s unemployment rate has been lower than the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Montana3\/NorthwestClientServices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Montana3\/NorthwestClientServices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Montana3\/NorthwestClientServices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Montana3\/NorthwestClientServices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Montana3\/NorthwestClientServices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Montana3\/NorthwestClientServices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Montana3\/NorthwestClientServices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Montana3\/NorthwestClientServices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}