{"id":7897,"date":"2012-06-05T17:36:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T23:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=7897"},"modified":"2012-06-06T09:55:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T15:55:27","slug":"idaho-recovers-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/05\/idaho-recovers-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Recovers, Sort Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7898\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"In Meridian, a worker trains to become a mechanical technician.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/6-5-Idaho-Worker.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7898\" title=\"6-5 Idaho Worker\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/6-5-Idaho-Worker-620x543.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/6-5-Idaho-Worker-620x543.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/6-5-Idaho-Worker-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/6-5-Idaho-Worker.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Emilie Ritter Saunders \/ StateImpact Idaho<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Meridian, a worker trains to become a mechanical technician.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By one measure, Idaho&#8217;s economy has regained the ground it lost in the recession.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s real gross state product (translation: the total value of all goods and services produced in Idaho, corrected for inflation) was <em>greater<\/em> in 2011 than it was in 2007.\u00a0 That&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/labor.idaho.gov\/news\/NewsReleases\/tabid\/1953\/ctl\/PressRelease\/mid\/2527\/itemid\/2433\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Idaho Department of Labor<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first time the state&#8217;s real GSP has surpassed pre-recession levels.\u00a0 Real GSP came in at just under $51.5 billion last year, $36 million higher than the 2007 total.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s important to note is that Idaho is producing more with less.\u00a0 The state generated a greater value of goods and services in 2011 than in 2007, but it did so with fewer workers.\u00a0 As <em>StateImpact<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/maps\/idaho\/unemployment\/#2012\/March\/Ada\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment app<\/a> shows, about 22,000 fewer people were employed in Idaho at the end of 2011 compared to the end of 2007.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s reflected in the state&#8217;s unemployment rate, which stands at 7.7 percent compared to the 2007 low of 2.7 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By one measure, Idaho&#8217;s economy has regained the ground it lost in the recession. The state&#8217;s real gross state product (translation: the total value of all goods and services produced in Idaho, corrected for inflation) was greater in 2011 than it was in 2007.\u00a0 That&#8217;s according to the Idaho Department of Labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":7898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[233,46,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897"}],"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=7897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7919,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions\/7919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}