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In Wyoming, Hard Times Return as Energy Prices Slump
April 12, 2016 /
Tumbling prices for oil and gas, along with bankruptcies in the coal industry, have pummeled Wyoming’s energy-dependent economy and eroded a thin safety net for poor and older residents. Energy development helped Wyoming weather the nation’s thin years seven or eight years ago, but now officials estimate that energy companies have shed some 5,500 jobs — a huge number in a state with 580,000 residents.
By JACK HEALY
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Posted in: Wyoming Business
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