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UM economist predicts 2 year recovery from coronavirus pandemic

May 15, 2020/

Patrick Barkey

“We should prepare for it. But rather what we’re trying to say is that we’re facing a very significant economic challenge. Montana is not going to be spared,”

A University of Montana economist says since mid-February – and the COVID-19 outbreak – Montana’s economy has declined too quickly to adequately measure, but one analysis shows a two-year recovery.

 

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