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March 5, 2012

Economy Leaves Few Options For Idaho Teens Who Want, Need Work

The economic downturn hit young people especially hard. Today’s young adults are the “boomerang generation,” given how many have landed back home with parents. For teens, jobs are even harder to come by, and few places are tougher than Idaho. Last year, the state’s teen unemployment rate stood at 30 percent, one of the highest […]

March 4, 2012

For Jobless Teen, Search For Work Is Struggle To Help Family

StateImpact‘s story on teen unemployment will air tomorrow morning on KBSX. Ahead of that story, we’re doing short profiles of a couple of the teenagers who agreed to be interviewed. One of them is Stephen Berry, 18, a senior at Frank Church High School. For Berry, wanting to work isn’t about wanting to earn spending […]

March 2, 2012

Lack Of Work Means Fewer Options For One Idaho Teen

StateImpact is reporting on teen unemployment this week, which has meant talking to a lot of school counselors and high school students. We’ll be wrapping their stories into a radio feature early next week, but in the meantime, we’re introducing a couple of the teenagers here. First, meet Igor Autin. He’s a junior at Boise […]

February 27, 2012

Unemployed Teens Could Face Long-Term Disadvantages

Idaho had one of the highest teen unemployment rates in the nation last year. Nearly 30 percent of 16- to 19-year-old Idahoans were unemployed, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. This week, StateImpact is exploring that rate. After all, unemployed teens aren’t just college-bound high school students who are finding it harder to […]

February 21, 2012

As Economy Recovers, High-School Dropouts Fall Further Behind

High-school dropouts are falling further behind, even as the national jobless rate has improved. That’s according to an article in today’s Wall Street Journal. “Some 1.8 million more college graduates have found work since January 2010, when the recovery began producing jobs,” the piece says, “but about 128,000 high-school dropouts lost work in the same […]

February 15, 2012

New Report Predicts the Best Jobs in Idaho for 2012

A Moscow, Idaho based economic modeling company has released its predictions for the Gem State’s top jobs in 2012. Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. or EMSI says registered nurses, nuclear engineers and electrical power-line installers and repairers are the three best jobs to seek this year. EMSI says those three professions have seen some of the […]

February 9, 2012

Idaho National Lab Announces Layoffs

Officials with the Idaho National Laboratory say they need to cut 185 employees to reduce costs. The Associated Press reports employees at the lab were informed of the job cuts today. Lab officials will ask for voluntary layoffs before deciding how many pink slips to hand out. Human Resources Director Mark Holubar tells Boise State […]

Jobless in Idaho: Back To Work And Scraping By

The unemployment rate has ticked down in recent months, nationally and here in Idaho. Two of the people StateImpact Idaho has followed through its “Jobless in Idaho” series are among those who have made progress in finding work. But they haven’t simply landed jobs and resumed the lives they had before unemployment. When we first […]

February 7, 2012

Tallying Job Losses and Gains in Idaho’s Construction and Manufacturing Sectors

Brookings Institution economist Gary Burtless highlights recent national gains in the manufacturing and construction sectors after last week’s news that the unemployment rate has dropped to 8.3 percent. However Burtless puts those gains in perspective, writing: Service-producing employers in the private sector are the source of an overwhelming share of net new employment in the […]

Supervalu Laying Off 130 Corporate Employees in Boise

Supervalu Inc., the parent company of Albertsons grocery stores, is laying off about 130 employees at its Boise corporate office. Supervalu announced today the reduction is part of a nationwide move to reduce operating costs. Spokesman Mike Siemienas says Supervalu will reduce its workforce by 800. That’s out of a total workforce of 135,000 nationwide. […]

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