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March 21, 2012

Where We Work: Visualizing Jobs In The U.S. And Idaho

The good folks at NPR’s Planet Money created this neat visualization of how the jobs we work have shifted over time. The clearest change is in manufacturing jobs. In 1972, they accounted for nearly 24 percent of jobs in the U.S. Now, just 9 percent of workers are employed in that sector. The proportion of […]

March 16, 2012

As Airlines Drop Flights, Boise Business Leaders Target Air Service

StateImpact is considering the potential economic effects of the shrinking number of flights in and out of Boise. As we mentioned in a post yesterday, there will be 20 percent fewer seats leaving Boise this summer than last. The Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce is targeting the issue through a new travel committee. Early this week, I […]

March 15, 2012

Analyst: Fewer Flights From Boise Can’t Be Good For Business

Frontier Airlines recently announced it won’t resume service between Boise and Denver this spring. Early this year, Southwest discontinued its flights from Boise to Seattle, Salt Lake and Reno. An American Airlines affiliate has cancelled its service from Boise to Los Angeles. The net effect is that there will be 20 percent fewer seats leaving […]

March 14, 2012

Data Debacle: Blaine County’s True Top Employer

One of our readers recently asked why the Sun Valley Resort isn’t one of Blaine County’s top employers. Data from the Idaho Labor Department shows the Blaine County School District is the biggest employer in that county. Back in January we posted this map, which shows the top five employers in each county. We wanted […]

March 13, 2012

More Job Openings Than Layoffs Last Month

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been compiling interesting data on the number of job openings and job turnover each month. It’s dubbed JOLTS, a handy acronym for Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. As of January 31, 2012 there were almost 3.5 million job openings in the U.S. During the same month more than […]

The Broken Link Between Jobs and Growth

As the jobless rate continues to fall, a lot of people have found themselves wondering how the U.S. economy is producing jobs when it’s actually not growing all that much. Planet Money sums up the puzzle with this pithy question: “What’s The Opposite Of A Jobless Recovery?” As background, The Wall Street Journal offers this […]

March 12, 2012

In Boise, Women’s Wages Are Among Nation’s Worst

This truth still holds: women earn less than men. Despite decades of improvement, women who work full-time and year-round earn about 77 percent as much as similarly employed men. Where do women fare the worst? Financial news and commentary site 24/7 Wall Street has compiled a ranking of the cities where women are paid the […]

Jobless in Idaho: National Guard Soldiers Seek Deployment In Face Of Job Market

The Idaho Department of Labor estimates there are at least 63,000 people in the state without work. That doesn’t include thousands more who are underemployed or have stopped looking for a job. This is the latest story in our “Jobless in Idaho” series, that follows several Idahoans in their search for work. We brought you a […]

March 8, 2012

Jobs For Idaho Teens Deteriorated In Last Decade

In reporting StateImpact’s recent story on Idaho’s high teen unemployment rate, one of the people I consulted was Andrew Sum, of Northeastern University in Boston. He’s an economist, and an expert on the youth labor market. Here, he explains the magnitude of the shifts Idaho has seen in terms of teen employment. Q: First, you […]

March 7, 2012

More Bad News For Idaho Teens: Young Workers’ Pay Takes A Hit

Young workers’ wages have fallen off in the last ten years, a period that a new report terms the “lost decade.” D.C.-based think tank the Economic Policy Institute analyzed entry-level workers’ earnings going back to 1979. “From 2000 to 2011, a period of disappointing overall wage growth, wages actually fell among every entry-level group regardless […]

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