Feds release data on Paycheck Protection loan recipients
Data released this week by the U.S. Small Business Administration provides the first detailed accounting of the businesses aided by the Paycheck Protection Program, indicating that Montana’s loan recipients span nearly the full width of the state’s economic landscape.
Exploring Montana’s economic future
Montana, as the saying goes, is one big small town with really long streets. The Long Streets Project aims to cover it like that, focusing on the economic trends and issues that shape the opportunity Montanans have — or don’t have — to make a decent living.
The project, spearheaded by data reporter Eric Dietrich and project editor Brad Tyer, is supported by the Greater Montana Foundation.
As with MTFP’s other work, these stories and visuals are available for republication by outlets across the state under a Creative Commons license.
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LONG STREETS REPORTS
What jobs may come
State labor department figures released in late September estimate 62,300 job openings in Montana each year through 2028. What they pay, and whether you can get them, has a lot to do with education.
As trade war simmers, Montana farmers get federal relief. Here’s where the 2019 subsidies hit home.
Industry leaders are skeptical that the program puts ag producers back in the black.
Student enrollment is up statewide, but dwindling numbers threaten to squeeze rural schools
For districts in agricultural towns on the state’s eastern plains, a decades-long trend toward larger farms and fewer ag families means there are fewer students to go around.
Lagging rural census response could cost Montana second U.S. House seat
COVID-19 pandemic disrupted get-out-the-count efforts
Coronavirus chill hits Montana newspapers
As of April 1, every large daily publication in the state is facing newsroom furloughs intended to help their companies survive the crisis.
Privacy measure could muddle 2020 census results for rural Montana
In some sparsely populated Montana counties, official population counts could be skewed by 10%.
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MORE LONG STREETS
Montana property taxes keep rising. Here’s where residents shoulder the heaviest loads.
A new tax study was commissioned in part to explore whether state and local governments rely too heavily on residential property tax revenue.
A look back at the top MTFP stories of 2019
From the 66th Montana Legislature to the 2020 elections, it’s been a news-filled year.
Hutterite-commissioned study says communities’ collective operations add 2,200 jobs to state economy
The study, billed as the first of its kind, concludes that the communities’ collective business operations contribute $365.3 million annually to the Montana economy.
MTFP Reporter Eric Dietrich talks about data reporting and new Labor Department projections
MTFP data reporter Eric Dietrich’s latest story, “What Jobs May Come,” examines state economists’ forecasts for job openings, wages, and job turnover in Montana in the coming decade.
It can be tough to find fresh food in small towns. It gets harder when you lose your county’s only grocery store.
Where do rural communities turn for fresh food when their only grocery store goes up in flames?
Where born and bred Montanans do, and don’t, live
Montanans prize birthright, but less than half of us were born here.
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