{"id":9518,"date":"2012-08-01T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=9518"},"modified":"2012-08-01T11:07:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T17:07:11","slug":"idaho-education-quality-of-life-slip-in-cnbc-business-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/08\/01\/idaho-education-quality-of-life-slip-in-cnbc-business-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Education &#038; Quality Of Life Slip In CNBC Business Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9520\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Lewiston, Idaho\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/07\/LewistonID-Drewski2112-Flickr.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9520\" title=\"Lewiston, Idaho\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/07\/LewistonID-Drewski2112-Flickr-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/07\/LewistonID-Drewski2112-Flickr-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/07\/LewistonID-Drewski2112-Flickr-620x412.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/07\/LewistonID-Drewski2112-Flickr.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Drewski2112 \/ Flickr Creative Commons<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewiston, Idaho<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Idaho jumped 18 spots in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/46415092\" target=\"_blank\">Top States for Business list<\/a> compiled by CNBC.\u00a0 The Gem State went from 31st in 2011 to 13th in 2012.\u00a0 Now, Idaho is sandwiched between Iowa and Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/46415092\" target=\"_blank\">ranks states<\/a> according to ten categories.\u00a0 Things like; the cost of doing business, education, cost of living, and business friendliness.<\/p>\n<p>While Idaho&#8217;s overall ranking from CNBC improved, two category-specific scores got worse.<!--more--> Education and quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the scorecard:<\/p>\n<p>[spreadsheet key=&#8221;0AiLU6Cs5LWZIdEtPRnZhVHl5d3pnTlNYb1ItX0t3OWc&#8221; source=&#8221;CNBC&#8221; sheet=0 filter=0 paginate=0 sortable=0]<\/p>\n<p>You can find the full list of state rankings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/46414199\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho jumped 18 spots in this year&#8217;s Top States for Business list compiled by CNBC.\u00a0 The Gem State went from 31st in 2011 to 13th in 2012.\u00a0 Now, Idaho is sandwiched between Iowa and Indiana. CNBC ranks states according to ten categories.\u00a0 Things like; the cost of doing business, education, cost of living, and business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":9520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[68,236],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9518"}],"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=9518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}