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Much like the nation, Idaho’s post-recession recovery has been slow and bumpy.

In areas like the housing market, Idaho has shown repeated positive signs since StateImpact started keeping track in 2011.  Idaho’s hardest-hit sector, construction, is also making a steady, albeit slow, comeback.

As this chart shows, Idaho’s unemployment rate is also continuing its trend downward.

However, Idaho still isn’t seeing a positive change in three areas.

Median income hasn’t rebounded…

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Idaho’s poverty rate continues to increase…

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

And more people are using food stamps than ever before…

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Latest Posts

December 15, 2011

Idaho Foreclosure Rate Posts Big Decrease

Idaho saw a more than 40 percent drop in foreclosure filings from October to November, according to numbers from RealtyTrac, released today.  The report shows that one in every 770 housing units in Idaho had a foreclosure filing last month, compared to one in every 432 in October. Idaho’s 40 percent drop in foreclosure activity […]

October 24, 2011

Business Owners Take On Recession vs Recovery

Some Idaho business owners say the same thing: recession or recovery, it doesn’t really matter what it’s called, business is slow.  Last week we talked with Idaho economists about this idea.  Boise State University economics professor Don Holley says labeling trends “recession” or “recovery” does make a difference.  “If we were still (technically) in a […]

October 20, 2011

The Three R’s: Recession, Recovery, Relevance

Idaho’s economy, like the national economy, has technically been in recovery mode since June 2009.  That’s when the latest recession ended.  It lasted 18 months, from December 2007 until June 2009.  The National Bureau of Economic Research is the group of independent economists that makes these declarations. Here at StateImpact Idaho, we’re trying to find […]

October 19, 2011

What’s in a Word? How Idaho Economists View the Recovery

We’re on a mission to find out from economists, business owners, workers and everyone in between what the words Recession and Recovery mean in Idaho.  Here’s what three economists had to say. “It’s almost like economists who are focusing on this narrow view of what constitutes a recession have almost made themselves irrelevant.  Most people […]

September 27, 2011

Idaho Jobless Numbers Rise Following Recession

This series of maps from the New York Times illustrates Idaho’s hard reality, with respect to the jobless rate.  While most states have seen unemployment drop since the end of the recession, Idaho is among the handful that have watched unemployment rise.  In June of 2009, Idaho’s rate stood at 7.6 percent.  Last month, it […]

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