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Idaho’s share of minimum wage workers declined 0.6 percent from 2012 to 2013 according to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The drop…
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A plan to put more money in the pockets of Idaho's lowest-paid workers cleared its first hurdle Monday when the Senate State Affairs Committee voted to…
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A Democratic lawmaker will ask her fellow legislators to sign off on a plan to raise Idaho's minimum wage.But majority Republicans have largely rejected…
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The minimum wage goes up Wednesday in 13 states. Idaho isn’t one of them, but some of its neighbors are.Washington and Oregon already have the first and…
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Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, said Monday he's against raising the nation’s minimum wage. During a conference call with reporters, Labrador said he…
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It costs more to get by in rural Idaho than it does in Boise, the state's population center. That's according to the Economic Policy Institute's family…
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Idaho has the largest percentage of minimum wage jobs in the country. That’s been the jumping off point for StateImpact Idaho’s series examining wages;…
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As in many states, Idaho’s minimum wage hasn’t changed since 2009, when the hourly minimum was boosted by the federal government.The U.S. Bureau of Labor…
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The border between Washington and Idaho is like a petri dish for what the minimum wage does to the economy. That’s where two extremes meet. Idaho has the…
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Bob Lokken, CEO of Boise-based WhiteCloud Analytics, is three years into building his new company. It designs software for health care professionals with…