{"id":7306,"date":"2012-05-11T13:36:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2012-05-11T14:04:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T20:04:21","slug":"bad-news-idahoans-were-downwardly-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/05\/11\/bad-news-idahoans-were-downwardly-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad News, Idahoans: We&#8217;re Downwardly Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7309\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economicmobility.org\/research\/data-visualizations\/economic-mobility-of-the-states-interactive-85899381539\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7309\" title=\"5-11 Economic Mobility\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/05\/5-11-Economic-Mobility-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/05\/5-11-Economic-Mobility-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/05\/5-11-Economic-Mobility.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Pew Center on the States<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on the image above to go to Pew&#39;s interactive map.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Idahoans have a greater chance of sliding down the economic ladder than the average American.\u00a0 That&#8217;s one piece of information gleaned from the Pew Center on the States&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economicmobility.org\/research\/reports\/economic-mobility-of-the-states-85899383564\" target=\"_blank\">recent report on economic mobility<\/a>, out this week.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho is grouped with Montana, Alaska and Wyoming for the purpose of the report, given the states&#8217; small populations.\u00a0 The study is based on 30 years of earnings data, and focuses on Americans in their &#8220;prime working years,&#8221; meaning their mid-30s through 40s.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, 40 percent of top earners living in Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Wyoming saw their rank in the national earnings distribution fall by\u00a0ten or more points over a decade.\u00a0 That is, they found themselves doing less well relative to earners across the nation.\u00a0 <!--more-->That means Idaho earners had high relative <em>downward<\/em> mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of neighboring Utah, meanwhile, experienced high relative <em>upward<\/em> mobility during the decades the report considers.\u00a0 There, 44 percent of residents that started out in the bottom half of the earnings distribution moved up\u00a0ten or more points over the decade, compared to their peers across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The sorry takeaway: if you want to experience the American Dream, you might have a better chance of it if you move next door.<\/p>\n<p>For a handy three-minute video explaining economic mobility, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewstates.org\/news-room\/video-library\/economic-mobility-and-the-american-dream-85899378857\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idahoans have a greater chance of sliding down the economic ladder than the average American.\u00a0 That&#8217;s one piece of information gleaned from the Pew Center on the States&#8217; recent report on economic mobility, out this week. 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