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Boise home values have improved by nearly five percent from their post-recession low. That’s enough of an increase that a recent Brookings Institution…
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For months now, our “Jobless in Idaho” series has followed people here in Idaho as they search for work against hard odds. Kelly Barker, a single mom from…
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Here’s one lesson of the economic downturn: unemployment disadvantages different age groups in different ways.Yesterday, we revisited the problem of high…
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By one measure, Idaho’s economy has regained the ground it lost in the recession.The state’s real gross state product (translation: the total value of all…
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The weak economy has exposed shortcomings in a little-known program of the U.S. State Department. Each year, tens of thousands of refugees arrive in the…
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Idaho’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for March dropped below 8 percent to 7.9 percent. The Idaho Department of Labor reports that’s the first…