{"id":991,"date":"2011-10-19T10:58:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T16:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=991"},"modified":"2012-04-18T11:51:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T17:51:50","slug":"whats-in-a-word-how-idaho-economists-view-the-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/10\/19\/whats-in-a-word-how-idaho-economists-view-the-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in a Word? How Idaho Economists View the Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re on a mission to find out from economists, business owners, workers and everyone in between what the words Recession<\/em> and Recovery<\/em> mean in Idaho.\u00a0 Here’s what three economists had to say.<\/p>\n

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State of Idaho <\/p><\/div>\n

“It\u2019s almost like economists who are focusing on this narrow view of what constitutes a recession have almost made themselves irrelevant.\u00a0 Most people don\u2019t feel like we\u2019re recovering.”
\n– Mike Ferguson, Idaho’s former chief economist<\/p>\n

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Boise State University <\/p><\/div>\n

“We\u2019re in a recession.\u00a0 In the popular use of the term, we\u2019re still in recession, even though the economy isn\u2019t in decline \u2013 we\u2019re still in recession, we\u2019re not back to where we were before.\u201d\u00a0
\n– Don Holley, Boise State University Economics Professor<\/p>\n

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Kevin Quinn \/ Spokesman Review <\/p><\/div>\n

“For the average person, it\u2019s hard to tell the difference between the recession and the recovery because it\u2019s not having that much impact on wages and salaries, their ability to find jobs and their wealth.”
\n– Kathryn Tacke, Regional Economist, Idaho Department of Labor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tell us what Recession<\/em> and Recovery<\/em> mean to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re on a mission to find out from economists, business owners, workers and everyone in between what the words Recession and Recovery mean in Idaho.\u00a0 Here’s what three economists had to say. “It\u2019s almost like economists who are focusing on this narrow view of what constitutes a recession have almost made themselves irrelevant.\u00a0 Most people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[101,85,46,47,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991"}],"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=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6726,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/6726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}