The Idaho Legislature convenes January 9th. In advance of the session, we interviewed several legislative leaders and asked them about Idaho’s economy and what the state could be doing to boost growth and job creation. Minority Leader Rep. John Rusche (D-Lewiston) was elected to the Idaho House of Representatives in 2004. A retired physician and […]
StateImpact Idaho is beginning to look at the effects of the $34 million Medicaid cut that the Idaho Legislature passed last session. Related to that, a new report from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) tallies the state-by-state changes in general fund appropriations for state mental health agencies since 2009. According to the report, […]
Some bad news today from the U.S. Census Bureau. The most recent poverty numbers show that the national rate grew to 15.1 percent in 2010. “Another 2.6 million people slipped below the poverty line in 2010, meaning 46.2 million people now live in poverty in the United States, the highest number in the 52 years […]
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