News December 2021
Published December 31, 2022
Christelle Khalaf, associate director for UW’s Center for Business and Economic Analysis, was interviewed by National Public Radio about President Joe Biden’s massive bipartisan infrastructure bill. Khalaf said the most immediate impacts of the bill would show up in the construction industry.
U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney has introduced a bill intended to safeguard states’ revenue from future leasing disruptions. In the same article, The Casper Star-Tribune reported that an estimate from UW economist Timothy Considine notes that Wyoming would have received more than $100 million in additional revenue in 2020 even though development and production declined dramatically last year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
