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RBC economic update released

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MEEKER | While the numbers for Rio Blanco County’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) have suffered due to large losses in oil and gas output since 2020, other factors remain fairly constant, including employment, median household income, and inflationary pressure, according to an economic update for the first quarter of 2023 prepared by Dr. Nathan Perry, associate professor of economics at Colorado Mesa University, and funded by Associated Governments of Northwest Colorado (AGNC). 

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