{"id":3962,"date":"2012-01-20T13:23:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T20:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2012-01-20T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T22:47:29","slug":"idahos-jobless-rate-drops-slightly-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/20\/idahos-jobless-rate-drops-slightly-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho&#8217;s Jobless Rate Drops Slightly in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3965\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Job seekers speaking with potential employers at the Veteran's Job Fair in Boise in November. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/IMG_0082.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3965\" title=\"IMG_0082\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/IMG_0082-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/IMG_0082-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/IMG_0082-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/IMG_0082-220x165.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/IMG_0082-138x103.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Emilie Ritter Saunders \/ StateImpact Idaho<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Job seekers speaking with potential employers at the Veteran&#39;s Job Fair in Boise in November.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Idaho&#8217;s unemployment rate is now at its lowest level in nearly three years.\u00a0 The Department of Labor <a href=\"http:\/\/labor.idaho.gov\/news\/NewsReleases\/tabid\/1953\/ctl\/PressRelease\/mid\/2527\/itemid\/2397\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate ticked down one-tenth of a percent to 8.4 for the month of December.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho&#8217;s jobless rate hit a record high of 9.7 percent in December 2010.\u00a0 Those gains mark the largest year-over-year growth in total employment since before the recession officially began in mid-2007.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there are 64,100 Idahoans <a title=\"Series: Jobless in\u00a0Idaho\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/jobless-in-idaho\/\">without work<\/a>.\u00a0 The Conference board, a D.C.-based think tank estimates there are more than three unemployed Idahoans for every job post.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We typically post an <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/maps\/idaho\/idaho-unemployment\/#6.00\/45.636\/-114.598\" target=\"_blank\">interactive county-by-county map<\/a> showing individual county jobless numbers, but that data isn&#8217;t yet available for December.\u00a0 Idaho Department of Labor spokesman Bob Fick says the necessary border county data isn&#8217;t ready because the regional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2012\/jan\/20\/region-upended-by-snow\/\" target=\"_blank\">snowstorm<\/a> has closed government offices in Washington state over the last two days.<\/p>\n<p>Fick says the department <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/cps\/cps_htgm.htm\" target=\"_blank\">measures jobless numbers<\/a> by metro area.\u00a0 So, Coeur d&#8217;Alene and Lewiston data relies on information gathered just across the border in Spokane and Clarkston, Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho&#8217;s unemployment rate is now at its lowest level in nearly three years.\u00a0 The Department of Labor reports the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate ticked down one-tenth of a percent to 8.4 for the month of December. Idaho&#8217;s jobless rate hit a record high of 9.7 percent in December 2010.\u00a0 Those gains mark the largest year-over-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":3965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[106,74,108],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962"}],"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=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3970,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/3970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}