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Wage growth in rural Idaho outpaced urban counties in 2007 (access required)

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Published: April 24,2009
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The economic slowdown that eventually grew into a national recession in late 2007 hit Idaho’s urban counties much sooner than the state’s rural areas, according to new wage estimates released April 23 by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.   The increase in Idaho’s average annual wage from 2006 to 2007 was substantially ...



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