Press Releases
Idaho’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased between June and July, from 3.6% to 3.7%. July’s labor force decreased by 451 people to 1,010,133 while the labor force participation rate – the percentage of people 16 years or older who are either employed or looking for work – decreased by 0.2 percentage points between June and […]
July 20, 2025 (June data) Download the report
The department’s Labor Market Research Manager Craig Shaul and Labor Economists Jan Roeser and Seth Harrington discuss changes over the past 20 years in the state’s rural demographics. Watch the webinar
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The population of those 65 and over continues to increase in the counties of Idaho that contain a large amount of agricultural land. As a result, older Idahoans who own this land are at a crossroads of whether to pass it to a successor or sell it when they can no longer tend to it […]