{"id":2287,"date":"2011-11-25T16:02:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T23:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2011-11-25T16:02:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T23:02:32","slug":"essential-stateimpact-top-five-stories-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/11\/25\/essential-stateimpact-top-five-stories-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential StateImpact: Top Five Stories of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now that Black Friday is almost over and you’re letting all that turkey and stuffing digest, take a look back at the stories that got the most clicks and comments this week.<\/p>\n

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  1. Ten Idaho Lawmakers Sign Norquist’s Anti-Tax Pledge<\/a>:\u00a0 One of the people being blamed for the supercommittee\u2019s failure (often by Democrats, and on occasion by Republicans), is Grover Norquist.\u00a0 He\u2019s a longtime lobbyist who runs the group Americans for Tax Reform<\/a>.\u00a0 Norquist is known for getting hundreds of lawmakers from around the country to sign a pledge promising never to raise\u00a0taxes.\u00a0 Ten of Idaho’s lawmakers have signed on.<\/li>\n
  2. The Future of Idaho’s Unemployment Benefits Uncertain<\/a>: 25,000 Idahoans are currently receiving unemployment insurance benefits, that number could be cut in half unless federal emergency unemployment benefits are extended at the end of the year.<\/li>\n
  3. Idaho in Top Ten for Cuts in Mental Health Spending<\/a>: As advocates for people with mental illness will point out, Idaho hasn\u2019t had a great track record of funding services for the state\u2019s mentally ill. \u201cI think the shocking part is we spend $44 per capita<\/a> on mental health, and the national average is $122. So we\u2019re about a third of the national average,\u201d said Doug McKnight, president of the Idaho chapter of NAMI.\u00a0 Moreover, Idaho remains the only state<\/a> without a local suicide prevention hotline.<\/li>\n
  4. Understanding Federal Unemployment Insurance Benefits<\/a>: More than 12,000 Idahoans currently receive federal emergency unemployment benefits.\u00a0 This post explains how those benefits work and who pays for them.<\/li>\n
  5. \u00a0Idaho’s Unemployment Rate Moves in a Positive Direction<\/a>:\u00a0 Idaho’s unemployment rate ticked down to its lowest level in nearly two years last month.\u00a0 But many counties across the state face rates in the double-digits.\u00a0 We created an interactive map<\/a> to better visualize the state’s unemployment picture.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Now that Black Friday is almost over and you’re letting all that turkey and stuffing digest, take a look back at the stories that got the most clicks and comments this week. Ten Idaho Lawmakers Sign Norquist’s Anti-Tax Pledge:\u00a0 One of the people being blamed for the supercommittee\u2019s failure (often by Democrats, and on occasion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[89,108],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287"}],"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=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}