{"id":5359,"date":"2012-03-02T14:12:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T21:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2012-03-11T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T03:09:12","slug":"januarys-jobless-rate-drops-slightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/02\/januarys-jobless-rate-drops-slightly\/","title":{"rendered":"January&#8217;s Jobless Rate Drops Slightly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4503\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Department-of-Labor-office.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4503\" title=\"Department of Labor Meridian\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Department-of-Labor-office-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Department-of-Labor-office-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Department-of-Labor-office-220x143.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Department-of-Labor-office.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Molly Messick \/ StateImpact Idaho<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Idaho Department of Labor estimates January&#8217;s seasonally adjusted <a title=\"Work in Progress: Idaho\u2019s Unemployment App\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/unemployment-app\/\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment rate<\/a> was 8.1 percent.\u00a0 That&#8217;s down from <a title=\"Idaho\u2019s Jobless Rate Drops Slightly in December\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/20\/idahos-jobless-rate-drops-slightly-in-december\/\" target=\"_blank\">December&#8217;s estimate<\/a> of 8.3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the downward trend, there are still an estimated 63,000 people in Idaho without jobs.\u00a0 Those figures don&#8217;t take into account the people who have given up looking for work.\u00a0 Bob Uhlenkott at the Idaho Department of Labor says when discouraged workers are included in the monthly jobless rate, it typically doubles.<\/p>\n<p>As we reported Thursday, Idaho&#8217;s <a title=\"Idaho\u2019s 2011 Unemployment Rate Barely Lower Than\u00a02010\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/01\/idahos-2011-unemployment-rate-barely-lower-than-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">average unemployment rate<\/a> for 2011 wasn&#8217;t significantly different from 2010&#8217;s average.\u00a0 Uhlenkott says while things aren&#8217;t getting worse in Idaho, they aren&#8217;t improving quickly.\u00a0 \u201cRecovery is starting to gain a little bit of traction \u2013 but we\u2019re not popping the cork yet,\u201d Uhlenkott says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho Department of Labor estimates January&#8217;s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 8.1 percent.\u00a0 That&#8217;s down from December&#8217;s estimate of 8.3 percent. Despite the downward trend, there are still an estimated 63,000 people in Idaho without jobs.\u00a0 Those figures don&#8217;t take into account the people who have given up looking for work.\u00a0 Bob Uhlenkott at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":4503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[46,74,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359"}],"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=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}