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The Wyoming Economic Indicator report was released for the month of August, and it details various unemployment rates for Casper, Wyoming, and beyond.

Jobs, you'll spend about a third of your life at one. Yep, thirty percent of the average human's life is spent working at a job. So, what are people doing to get that check, and where are they doing it?

The report identifies $37.9 billion in current available funding across a wide variety of departments.

At least 7,000 coal workers lost their jobs last year.

The increase in the minimum wage is part of a $1.9 million dollar COVID-19 stimulus page that is pending in Congress.

According to the Casper Economic Health Index (CaEHI), Wyoming has an index value of 97.7, as of September 2020.

And employers hired 6.7 million people in June, down from 7.2 million in May, a record high.

It was the 17th consecutive week that jobless claims surpassed 1 million.

Fifteen other states have suspended their re-openings.

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