Issue Position: Economy

Issue Position

We have all come to accept Montana being known as Big Sky Country but, officially, we are still the Treasure State. In the past half century we have seen Montana's per capita income plummet from 10th highest in the country to 49th and our most valuable export has become young Montanans graduating from our university system. I am absolutely convinced that this precipitous decline is tied directly to the decline of our natural resource based industries. I am all in favor of doing all we can to enhance the vitality of the technology and tourism sectors of our economy. But we cannot hope to recapture the prosperity that once was ours without a concerted and sustained effort to revitalize our traditional economic base.

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