{"id":480,"date":"2011-09-27T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T23:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=480"},"modified":"2011-11-23T09:59:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:59:34","slug":"a-state-stuck-in-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/09\/27\/a-state-stuck-in-neutral\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Jobless Numbers Rise Following Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Justin Sullivan \/ Getty Images<\/p>

Job seekers met with recruiters at a California job fair this summer.<\/p><\/div>\n

This series of maps<\/a> from the New York Times illustrates Idaho’s hard reality, with respect to the jobless rate.\u00a0 While most states have seen unemployment drop since the end of the recession, Idaho is among the handful that have watched unemployment rise.\u00a0 In June of 2009, Idaho’s rate stood at 7.6 percent.\u00a0 Last month, it was 9.2 percent.<\/p>\n

As the Times reports, economists\u00a0wonder whether the slow recovery in parts of the West and South constitutes a lasting shift in the nation’s economic landscape.<\/p>\n

“Unemployment remains high across much of the country \u2014 the national rate is 9.1 percent \u2014 but the regions have recovered at different speeds.<\/p>\n

Now, with the concentration of the highest unemployment rates in the South and the West, some economists wonder if it is an anomaly of the uneven recovery or a harbinger of things to come.”\u00a0 – The New York Times<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mike Ferguson, Idaho’s former chief economist, says it’s painful to acknowledge the reality of the state’s predicament.\u00a0 “Idaho is characterized by having turned down earlier and deeper,” he said, “and it’s turning around more slowly than other states.”<\/p>\n

Ferguson doesn’t see signs of a rally ahead.\u00a0 He looks at the national numbers, which show job growth has stalled, and says Idaho’s situation is even more dire.\u00a0 “In Idaho,” he said, “it looks like it’s slipping.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This series of maps from the New York Times illustrates Idaho’s hard reality, with respect to the jobless rate.\u00a0 While most states have seen unemployment drop since the end of the recession, Idaho is among the handful that have watched unemployment rise.\u00a0 In June of 2009, Idaho’s rate stood at 7.6 percent.\u00a0 Last month, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[85,46,47,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}