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Truckers, Mechanics To Lose Jobs At Idaho Molybdenum Mine
Courtesy: Thompson Creek Metals CompanyThompson Creek Mine is the company's one Idaho location. Thompson Creek Metals Company answered questions from investors today after announcing yesterday that it...
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Idaho Creamery Closes Its Doors After Striking Wal-Mart Deal
Sandra Mu / Getty Images NewsIdaho is the nation's third-largest cheese producer, according to the state Department of Agriculture. Days after the Idaho State Department of Agriculture touted that...
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Idaho Foreclosures Ticked Up In Summer Months
Scott Olson / Getty Images NewsHome construction has picked up in Idaho even as foreclosures persist. Idaho saw more foreclosure filings from July through September than it did in the previous quarter...
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Rural Idaho Faces Diminished Federal Grant Dollars
Molly Messick / StateImpact IdahoThis spring, Fairfield, Idaho was awarded a $500,000 grant to partially cover the cost of water system improvements. Rural Idaho communities have struggled with high...
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PBS Frontline Documentary ‘Poor Kids’ Highlights Growing Poverty In The U.S.,...
Spencer Platt / Getty ImagesA child waits with a box of food at a food distribution center. As the holiday season gets underway, the PBS show Frontline premiered a new documentary this week that tells...
View ArticleNew Report Shows Many Idahoans Don’t Have Adequate Savings
Two in five Idahoans who are “liquid asset poor” wouldn’t be able to pay their bills if they lost their job. The Idaho Statesman reports on a study out today that takes a closer look at Americans’...
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“Worst Place To Buy” Ranking Is Fine News For Boise Homeowners
Tim Boyle / Getty Images Housing data provider RealtyTrac is out with new numbers that show Boise is one of the worst places to buy a foreclosure. That’s not a bad thing. “Certainly from the...
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Why Idaho’s Fast Foreclosure Process Pays Off For The State’s Housing Market
Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesHousing markets show more signs of revival in states like Idaho, where homes move through foreclosure quickly. This morning, NPR’s Morning Edition took a look at Florida’s...
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Boise’s Housing Bust Leaves Unlikely Victims In A Neighborhood That Saw The...
Molly Messick / StateImpact IdahoRyan, Scott and Tara Arellano, at home in their kitchen Homeowners, credit intact, still making their monthly mortgage payments. They’re not who we think of first when...
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How Investor-Buyers Shaped One Boise Housing Development Hit Hard In The...
Molly Messick / StateImpact IdahoA "For Rent" sign stood in front of a home in Charter Pointe last week. It’s clear that residential real estate investors played a role in the boom and bust in Idaho’s...
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Is Idaho Winning A Race To The Economic Bottom? That Depends On Who You Ask
Emilie Ritter Saunders / StateImpactMike Ferguson spoke to Boise's City Club on March 13, 2013. Many of Idaho’s monthly and quarterly economic indicators are good. The state’s unemployment rate has...
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Idaho’s Income Gap Continues To Grow
On Wednesday, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis will release personal income data for 2012. In anticipation of that release, StateImpact Idaho pulled together personal income data going back to 1990...
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Personal Income Grows, But Idahoan’s Earnings Still Fall Short
Idaho’s per capita personal income increased by $868 in 2012. That’s a 3.3 percent increase over 2011, and it boosts annual earnings above their 2008 peak. But the change wasn’t enough to narrow the...
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Foreclosed Homeowners To Receive First Round Of Settlement Payments
Warzau Wynn / Flickr Creative Commons We’ve noticed how many people are coming to this post. Would some of you like to help us with our future reporting? We’d like to talk to people in Idaho who...
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One Idaho Investor Watches His Bet On Gold Go South
REUTERS/Michael Buholzer / Landov Thanks to a $29,000 investment in gold, Pocatello man Jon Norstog got a nod in the paper of record this week. Norstog’s nest egg may still shine, but since 2011 it has...
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U.S. Bank Shareholder Meeting Brings Protesters to Boise
Molly Messick / StateImpact IdahoProtesters held letters spelling "U.S. Bank Is Stripping Our Wealth." About 40 demonstrators turned out as U.S. Bank held its annual shareholders’ meeting at Boise...
View ArticleIn Boise, Too, Home Prices Show Quick Growth
Single-family home prices rose by 9.3 percent in February compared to a year earlier, their fastest rate of growth in nearly seven years. That’s according to the S&P/Case-Shiller index, which is...
View ArticleIdaho’s GDP Ticks Up Slightly, Though Still Behind Most States
Idaho’s real gross domestic product inched up less than a percentage point from 2011 to 2012. New data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show Idaho’s GDP grew four-tenths of a...
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