{"id":5863,"date":"2012-03-21T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=5863"},"modified":"2012-03-21T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:44:00","slug":"where-we-work-visualizing-jobs-in-the-u-s-and-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/21\/where-we-work-visualizing-jobs-in-the-u-s-and-idaho\/","title":{"rendered":"Where We Work: Visualizing Jobs In The U.S. And Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5864\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 196px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2012\/03\/20\/149015363\/what-america-does-for-work\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5864\" title=\"3-21 Planet Money\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/03\/3-21-Planet-Money-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/03\/3-21-Planet-Money-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/03\/3-21-Planet-Money.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Lam Thuy Vo \/ NPR<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">To see Planet Money&#39;s full post, click on the image above.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The good folks at <em>NPR&#8217;s Planet Money<\/em><strong><\/strong><del><\/del> created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2012\/03\/20\/149015363\/what-america-does-for-work\" target=\"_blank\">this neat visualization<\/a> of how the jobs we work have shifted over time.\u00a0 The clearest change is in<del><\/del> manufacturing jobs.\u00a0 In 1972, they accounted for nearly 24 percent of jobs in the U.S<del><\/del>.\u00a0 Now, just 9 percent of workers are employed in <del><\/del>that sector.\u00a0 The proportion of jobs in service industries, meanwhile, has grown substantially.<\/p>\n<p>Government jobs hold the top spot, employing more than 16 percent of U.S. workers.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve spent a good deal of time documenting just what people here in Idaho do for work<del><\/del>.\u00a0 For example, <a title=\"Private vs. Public: Who Writes More Paychecks in Your County?\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/maps\/private-vs-public-who-writes-more-paychecks-in-your-county\/\">this county-level map<\/a> shows whether the private or public sector is responsible for a greater share of jobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/31\/where-the-jobs-are-and-arent-in-idaho\/\" target=\"_blank\">This story<\/a> <strong><\/strong>shows Idaho&#8217;s top 30 employers, and the extent to which they&#8217;ve expanded or cut back since 2005.\u00a0 As it explains, government jobs are at the top of the heap in Idaho, too.\u00a0 &#8220;If taken as one entity,&#8221; the post says, &#8220;the state would finish well ahead of other employers in [Idaho], with about 24,400 employees at the start of this calendar year, according the state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sco.idaho.gov\/web\/scoweb.nsf\/pages\/2012LegHndbk.htm\/$File\/2012LegislativeHandbook.pdf?OpenElement\" target=\"_blank\">controller\u2019s office<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks at NPR&#8217;s Planet Money created this neat visualization of how the jobs we work have shifted over time.\u00a0 The clearest change is in manufacturing jobs.\u00a0 In 1972, they accounted for nearly 24 percent of jobs in the U.S.\u00a0 Now, just 9 percent of workers are employed in that sector.\u00a0 The proportion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":5864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[233],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863"}],"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=5863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}