Unemployed workers losing their healthcare, rural hospitals losing revenue, and an uncertain future for Wyoming’s economy have the Legislature taking another look at its decision to refuse federal Medicaid funding.
COVID-19 prompts Wyoming lawmakers to reconsider Medicaid expansion Read More »
The Wyoming Legislature is bad at transparency, lacks modern technological infrastructure, and is about to convene an emergency “virtual” session the public can’t attend to appropriate more than $1 billion in federal COVID-19 funding. What could possibly go wrong?
Wyoming Legislature plugs in for an unprecedented “virtual” special session Read More »
The bill would create a program that uses federal emergency funds to reimburse landlords who have experienced rental losses as a result of COVID-19, protecting both landlord and renter. The Legislature will consider the proposal during a special session next week.
Proposal to help stop COVID-related evictions passes Wyoming legislative committee Read More »
Low-wage workers living paycheck-to-paycheck are least prepared to grapple with layoffs and cut hours resulting from the COVID crisis. By far, most low-wage workers in Wyoming are women.
Already behind, Wyoming women hit hard by COVID crisis Read More »
As unemployment spikes during the pandemic, Wyoming workers are increasingly unable to make housing payments. Federal measures and the goodwill of banks and landlords do not offer Wyoming families the housing protections they need.
Governor Gordon can and should stop COVID-related evictions in Wyoming Read More »
The same bill, which would imprison doctors who violate the waiting period for up to ten years, passed the same committee last year with the same vote.
A bad rerun: 48-hour waiting period for abortions clears Wyoming House committee Read More »
If Wyoming wants to diversify and develop its economy, it should focus its efforts on building communities where people desire to live, instead of desperately jumping on each pile-of-garbage “opportunity” that passes our way.
Wyoming’s economic development disasters Read More »
The committee’s support—and Wyoming’s worsening budget situation—gives Medicaid expansion the best shot it’s had in years.
How “keeping public lands in public hands” is critical to diversifying and strengthening Wyoming’s economy.
Wyoming Public Lands Day and our economic future Read More »
Wyoming politicians whine about the federal “War On Coal.” But no one was buying the Powder River Basin’s low-sulfur product until the Clean Air Act made it more affordable than its competitors.
Federal regulations created Wyoming’s coal industry Read More »
