People searching for work, creating their own employment, and stories about those in the Idaho work force.
Telling a story with numbers seems like a straightforward endeavor.Ā That is, until numbers don’t match or add up.Ā I’ve been working with the state controller’s office to find out how many Idaho state employees have lost their jobs in the last five years.Ā (The story and the numbers are right here.)Ā But while I […]
Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter said Idaho will not and has not faced “staggering” state employee layoffs like many other states have during his annual State of the State address delivered Monday.Ā But what does “staggering” mean?Ā Idaho has laid-off 928 people over the last five years.Ā The state’s total workforce has averaged about 24,700 employees […]
The lack of snow is hurting Boise’s local ski hill.Ā The Idaho Business Review reports Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area cut all year-round workers’ pay by 10 percent as it heads for the latest opening in the resort’s history.Ā IBR.com reports the ski area will also eliminate hours and positions. Bogus is usually covered in […]
Idaho is among the states where employment has dropped most significantly compared to its pre-2009 peak level, as this interactive graphic from The New York Times shows.Ā The accompanying article points out that the drop in employment has been most dramatic in some of the states that experienced the greatest fluctuations related to the housing […]
As we previously reported, Idaho is one of a handful of states where the number of people without jobs has increased since the official end of the recession.Ā The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has ticked down in recent months, but there are still at least 65,000 people out of work.Ā Tens of thousands more […]
In our first Jobless in Idaho story, we introduced you to Justy Thomas.Ā She’s 38 years old and graduated from Boise State University last Friday with a degree in Human Resources and Business Management.Ā She’s unemployed.Ā That’s why she enrolled in college four years ago.Ā Now, she looks forward with mixed emotions.Ā We caught up […]
Here’s a look back at our most read, commented and shared stories of the week: Jobless in Idaho: Soldiers Struggle to Translate War Experience into Work: Hereās a line most entry-level job seekers donāt have on their resume: āOperated a high-caliber machine gun, in Baghdad, Iraq.āĀ Many of the 2,700 National Guard soldiers from the […]
The Idaho Department of Labor says the state’s job force is growing.Ā Idaho’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped three-tenths of a percent in November to 8.5 percent.Ā That’s the largest one-month decline since 1983. Department of Labor spokesman Bob Fick says today’s news is another indicator that Idaho’s economy is beginning to pick itself off […]
āIāve got my education and hoped I could ride that out until I retired.”
As we reported yesterday, Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter says plans for Areva’s Idaho uranium enrichment facility are moving forward. But the CEO of the French energy company announced Tuesday its uranium enrichment plant near Idaho Falls is on hold. āThe assurances that I got from the folks over there when I called them, said thatās […]
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