{"id":5473,"date":"2012-03-07T16:44:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T23:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=5473"},"modified":"2012-03-07T16:44:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T23:44:50","slug":"more-bad-news-for-idaho-teens-young-workers-pay-takes-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/07\/more-bad-news-for-idaho-teens-young-workers-pay-takes-a-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"More Bad News For Idaho Teens: Young Workers’ Pay Takes A Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Young workers’ wages have fallen off in the last ten years, a period that a new report<\/a> terms the “lost decade.”\u00a0 D.C.-based think tank the Economic Policy Institute analyzed entry-level workers’ earnings going back to 1979.<\/p>\n

“From 2000 to 2011, a period of disappointing overall wage growth, wages actually fell among every entry-level group regardless of education,” report author Lawrence Mishel writes<\/a>.\u00a0 For high-school-educated men, entry-level wages fell by nearly 9 percent over that period, according to the study’s analysis.\u00a0 For high-school-educated women, the decline was slightly higher, at 9.2 percent.<\/p>\n

In Idaho, this unwelcome news for young workers coincides with an already troubling statistic: this state has one of highest teen unemployment rates in the nation<\/a>, according to recent numbers<\/a> from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n

StateImpact<\/em> recently has worked to document the effects<\/a> of joblessness on Idaho teens.\u00a0 Some worry that a lack of work now will put them at a disadvantage<\/del> later on, when they apply for work as young adults.\u00a0 Others, who need to work to support themselves or their families, say they feel hopelessly out-of-luck in an economy that has made jobs scarce.\u00a0 Listen to StateImpact<\/em>‘s broadcast feature here<\/a>.\u00a0 Also be sure to take a look at our unemployment app<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Young workers’ wages have fallen off in the last ten years, a period that a new report terms the “lost decade.”\u00a0 D.C.-based think tank the Economic Policy Institute analyzed entry-level workers’ earnings going back to 1979. “From 2000 to 2011, a period of disappointing overall wage growth, wages actually fell among every entry-level group regardless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":5476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[46,74,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473"}],"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=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}