{"id":17880,"date":"2013-07-10T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=17880"},"modified":"2013-07-10T15:41:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:41:26","slug":"its-more-expensive-to-get-by-in-rural-idaho-than-boise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/07\/10\/its-more-expensive-to-get-by-in-rural-idaho-than-boise\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s More Expensive To &#8216;Get By&#8217; In Rural Idaho Than Boise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17885\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"EPI says it costs $48,720 for a family of three to live in Boise.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/07\/Family_ImahinasyonPhotography_Flickr.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17885\" alt=\"EPI says it costs $48,720 for a family of three to live in Boise.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/07\/Family_ImahinasyonPhotography_Flickr-300x210.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/07\/Family_ImahinasyonPhotography_Flickr-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/07\/Family_ImahinasyonPhotography_Flickr.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">ImahinasyonPhotography \/ Flickr Creative Commons<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">EPI says it costs $48,720 for a family of three to live in Boise.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It costs more to get by in rural Idaho than it does in Boise, the state&#8217;s population center. That&#8217;s according to the Economic Policy Institute&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/resources\/budget\/\" target=\"_blank\">family budget calculator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A family of four living in Boise needs $56,491 per year. A family of four in rural Idaho needs $58,071.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a comparison of what it costs for a family of four, two parents and two children, to live in four different parts of Idaho.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>[spreadsheet key=&#8221;0AiLU6Cs5LWZIdHBsVDNnbGN5VXFpZzBPcWVmdU5JN3c&#8221; source=&#8221;Economic Policy Institute&#8221; sheet=0 filter=0 paginate=0 sortable=0]<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\nbr {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--><\/style>\n<p>EPI&#8217;s calculator measures the cost of housing, food, transportation, health care, child care, taxes and other necessities to determine a &#8220;secure and modest&#8221; cost of living. This calculator is available for 615 areas and six family types.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\nbr {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--><\/style>\n<p>According to the U.S. Census Bureau Idaho&#8217;s median household income in 2011 was $43,341. That means half of Idaho households make less than that each year.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/ib368-basic-family-budgets\/\" target=\"_blank\">EPI&#8217;s methodology here<\/a>. Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/resources\/budget\/\" target=\"_blank\">interactive calculator<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It costs more to get by in rural Idaho than it does in Boise, the state&#8217;s population center. That&#8217;s according to the Economic Policy Institute&#8217;s family budget calculator. A family of four living in Boise needs $56,491 per year. A family of four in rural Idaho needs $58,071. Here&#8217;s a comparison of what it costs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":17885,"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\/17880"}],"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=17880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}