{"id":17525,"date":"2013-05-14T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=17525"},"modified":"2013-05-14T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:44:53","slug":"bottom-rung-idaho-has-more-minimum-wage-workers-than-18-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/05\/14\/bottom-rung-idaho-has-more-minimum-wage-workers-than-18-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottom Rung: Idaho Has More Minimum Wage Workers Than 18 States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know Idaho has the <a title=\"Idaho Leads The Nation In Minimum Wage Workers\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/02\/27\/idaho-leads-nation-in-minimum-wage-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\">largest percentage of minimum wage workers in the country<\/a>; 7.7 percent of Idaho&#8217;s hourly workforce earns $7.25 or less.<\/p>\n<p>The same data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics also show Idaho has more minimum-wage earners, in raw numbers, than 18 other states. Many of those states have fewer people living in them, but six of the states have larger populations.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, and West Virginia all have more people than Idaho, but fewer people making minimum wage or less.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve <a title=\"Bottom Rung: Living On Low Wages In Idaho\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/bottom-rung\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported on Idaho&#8217;s low-wage trend<\/a> over the last several days, some nuggets of information like this haven&#8217;t fit into radio stories, but are still worth highlighting.<\/p>\n<p>[spreadsheet key=&#8221;0AiLU6Cs5LWZIdGZ4Y2RqS2pZZ0R2aHoxNVlrRHNlclE&#8221; source=&#8221;U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics&#8221; sheet=0 filter=0 paginate=0 sortable=1]<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/boisestate.edu\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0AiLU6Cs5LWZIdEI4OUpPMk5qNUdVVDAyTklFTXYyLUE#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\">Download Data From 50 States<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can explore our series, Bottom Rung: Living On Low Wages In Idaho, <a title=\"Bottom Rung: Living On Low Wages In Idaho\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/bottom-rung\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know Idaho has the largest percentage of minimum wage workers in the country; 7.7 percent of Idaho&#8217;s hourly workforce earns $7.25 or less. The same data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics also show Idaho has more minimum-wage earners, in raw numbers, than 18 other states. Many of those states have fewer people living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[230,143],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17525"}],"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=17525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}