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A new study shows wages have grown nearly 10% in states around the Mountain West. But as those wages climbed, so have housing prices. That means even if checks are getting bigger, people around the region can do less with their money.
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In a January 11 earnings call to investors, Albertson’s CEO Vivek Sankarian said that the company had been hoping to recover from recent supply issues, but the omicron variant of COVID-19 “put a dent in that.” NPR reports that “grocery store workers are catching the virus in higher numbers.” That, while acting as frontline workers during the pandemic and often facing the wrath frustrated, and occasionally customers.
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The analysis from the nonprofit Economic Roundtable has a simple title: “Hungry at the Table.” But there’s nothing simple about the plight of a growing number of the region’s grocery workers, in spite of being labeled “essential,” are finding it difficult to put food on their own tables.
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Boise State Public Radio and Idaho Matters are visiting Valley County, specifically McCall. It's our first big reporting trip after COVID-19 sent us all indoors to do interviews remotely, and we want to know how the lake town is recovering from the pandemic.
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Despite Idaho’s rural character, the state isn’t exempt from issues of housing affordability associated with more developed regions. A new report from the…
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A new Bloomberg analysis looks at the widening gap between the rich and the poor in cities across the nation. Boise made the top 10. The rapid influx of…
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Idaho and Colorado saw some of the nation's leading growth in wages this past year. But other western states, including Montana and Wyoming, lagged behind…
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Weekly wages in Idaho’s private sector are on the rise, according to a recent report out by the state’s Department of Labor.Weekly earnings have increased…
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When my wife became a nurse I suggested we move to Oregon where RNs make in excess of $20,000 a year more than in Idaho. I was joking (mostly) but that…
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Idaho workers saw the largest per capita income increase in the country in 2013, according to data recently released by the federal Bureau of Economic…