Why Wyoming
13 Mar 2017
In addition to consistently being named the nation’s “Most Business Friendly Tax Climate” five years running by the Tax Foundation, Wyoming provides a variety of advantages for businesses looking to relocate or expand.
Wyoming is a right-to-work state. Additionally, 7.1 percent of the state’s workforce are union members compared to 11.1 percent nationally (U.S. Bureau of Labor, 2015).
The state’s 301,770 labor force benefits from a strong commitment to education.
Wyoming consistently ranks among the top 10 states in annual K-12 per-pupil spending (currently about $17,000 per student). Wyoming spending per K-12 pupil increased 62 percent from 2005-15. Read more.
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January 31, 2017
The University of Wyoming’s Manufacturing-Works was recently awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that will help support Wyoming businesses.
The grant is part of $12 million in grants NIST recently awarded to Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) centers in...
A stone cistern and evidence of a potato cellar are all that remain of the Fales homestead near Deaver, Wyoming.
David Fales frequently walks the 87 acres his great-grandparents once called home. Heart Mountain dominates the landscape to the east. Sometimes, he comes across rusty old tools his ancestors...
The pitch black hole in the sky above the Australian Outback lasted about two minutes.
In the moments leading up to the fleeting cosmic phenomenon known as a total solar eclipse, the temperature cooled and the light dimmed.
The moon’s shadow rushed across the landscape toward Michele Wistisen...
