{"id":11001,"date":"2012-09-20T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=11001"},"modified":"2012-09-24T11:08:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T17:08:29","slug":"idaho-incomes-fall-for-third-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/09\/20\/idaho-incomes-fall-for-third-year-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Incomes Fall For Third Year In A Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Census data released today paint a picture of the recession&#8217;s lasting impact in Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s median household income has dropped considerably since 2008, when half of Idahoans earned more than $47,576 and half earned less.\u00a0 In 2011, median income continued its retreat, falling to $43,341.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a nearly 9 percent drop.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/boisestate.edu\/spreadsheet\/oimg?key=0AtNHLtezDs_XdF9WcmNvN21ITEtMamNyYUJPRnlEb1E&#038;oid=1&#038;zx=5i12n2upro8g\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">Source: U.S. Census Bureau<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Idaho Department of Labor has also analyzed the numbers, and points out that only two states &#8212; Nevada and Georgia &#8212; have experienced larger drops in median income over the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho&#8217;s median income tends to be substantially lower than the nation&#8217;s.\u00a0 Last year, the median household income for the U.S. was $50,502.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census data released today paint a picture of the recession&#8217;s lasting impact in Idaho. The state&#8217;s median household income has dropped considerably since 2008, when half of Idahoans earned more than $47,576 and half earned less.\u00a0 In 2011, median income continued its retreat, falling to $43,341.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a nearly 9 percent drop. Source: U.S. Census [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[46,143],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11011,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions\/11011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}