{"id":1601,"date":"2011-11-08T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2011-11-23T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:53:14","slug":"jobless-in-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/11\/08\/jobless-in-idaho\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless in Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1611\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 200px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/Classifieds_JimMcGuire_Getty.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1611\" title=\"Classifieds_JimMcGuire_Getty\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/Classifieds_JimMcGuire_Getty-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/Classifieds_JimMcGuire_Getty-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/Classifieds_JimMcGuire_Getty-220x330.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/Classifieds_JimMcGuire_Getty.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Jim McGuire \/ Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Idaho Department of Labor estimates there are nearly 70,000 people in the state who don&#8217;t have jobs<del><\/del>.\u00a0 Tens of thousands more are either underemployed or have stopped looking for work.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The unemployment rate measures people who are actively looking for work or working.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not actively looking for work than you\u2019re listed in the category of frustrated worker or marginally attached worker.\u00a0 And then there are thousands of people who are working jobs that are part time jobs because they can\u2019t find anything more.\u00a0 And then there are thousands of people on top of that even the federal government doesn\u2019t track.&#8221; &#8211; Bob Fick, Idaho Department of Labor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Idaho is one of a handful of states where the unemployment rate has gone up since the recession officially ended in mid-2009<strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 Idaho\u2019s unemployment rate climbed to its peak of 9.7 percent in early 2011, nearly two years after the recession was declared over.\u00a0 It has since come down <del><\/del>to <a href=\"http:\/\/labor.idaho.gov\/news\/NewsReleases\/tabid\/1953\/ctl\/PressRelease\/mid\/2527\/itemid\/2365\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">9.0 percent<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The state Department of Labor releases new unemployment figures the third Friday of every month, and every month media outlets diligently report the newest numbers.\u00a0 But the people who are behind these jobless numbers are often not covered.<del><\/del><strong><\/strong>\u00a0 Starting this week <em>StateImpact Idaho<\/em> will begin exploring who the unemployed are, what their struggles have been, and what they hope for.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll track their job searches over the next several months and share their experiences with you.\u00a0 <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We plan to profile several people who are unemployed in the coming weeks.\u00a0 We&#8217;d like to know your unemployment story.\u00a0 <em><\/em>If you know someone who might be interested in being part of this series, let us know.\u00a0 Drop us a note in the comments section or email us at ersaunders@stateimpact.org or mmessick@stateimpact.org.<\/p>\n<p>Listen for our series <em>Jobless in Idaho<\/em> on<a href=\"http:\/\/radio.boisestate.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Boise State Public Radio<\/a> and online right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho Department of Labor estimates there are nearly 70,000 people in the state who don&#8217;t have jobs.\u00a0 Tens of thousands more are either underemployed or have stopped looking for work. &#8220;The unemployment rate measures people who are actively looking for work or working.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not actively looking for work than you\u2019re listed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":1611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[106,46,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601"}],"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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}