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Governor Gordon Discusses Inflation Rate and Workforce Challenges
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3 years agoon
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Ron Richter
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon released his budget proposal for the next two fiscal years during a news conference earlier this week. Inflation and workforce issues were among the topics Gordon addressed during the conference. Sheridan Medias’ Ron Richter has the details.
The governor said during his address that Wyoming saw its highest inflation rate in more than a decade in the second quarter of 2021 with a rate of 7.7 percent.
Gordon also addressed the state’s workforce challenges and how it relates to the high inflation rate.
Gordon said more than 90 percent of state employees are currently being paid below 2017 market rates.
To try and make sure Wyoming can at least compete to keep workers, Gordon, in his $2.3 billion budget, is proposing a market adjustment for state employees. Gordon is scheduled to appear before the Joint Appropriations Committee at 8 am on December 1.
Thomas Jones
November 18, 2021 at 8:59 am
America runs on oil, so as oil prices go up, so do prices on consumer goods. I found it funny the other day listening to biden blaming oil companies for gouging the consumers, when in fact it was his policies through EO’s and other ‘green’ initiatives that are driving up the oil costs. Its past time to question bidens cognitive ability if he cant even remember what he signed regarding those 50+ EOs that someone else wrote for him. I also remember how quiet the repubs were as he signed them.
Mark Steingass
November 18, 2021 at 9:58 am
American oil companies appear to have two goals…one is profiteering from the American consumer and the other is to punish the Democratic platform for the promotion of “green energy”…when big oil companies can extortionate and achieve political goals at the same time they are using the same principles utilized by Vladimir Putin against the EU with regard to energy consumption
Thomas Jones
November 19, 2021 at 9:28 am
Im glad the courts struck down bidens energy lease restriction EO on public lands. In the meantime let me know when your ‘green’ utopia takes shape, and ‘green’ semis start rolling off of the assembly lines. Until then diesel trucks move goods from warehouse to consumer, and as oil prices rise so does the cost of the goods they carry. Biden signed over 50+ EOs, and created policies to hamstring oil production. Those are his policies, NOT BIG oils. So you need to ask yourself: did biden do this intentionally, or is he just grossly incompetent?