Latest employment data fuels optimism
Here's a link to my full story at spokesman.com on the promising economic news unveiled today by Gov. Butch Otter's chief economist, Mike Ferguson. He told the Boise City Club that new, not-yet-published labor data shows that Idaho's non-farm unemployment levels, which have been sliding, ended their fall in October, and actually showed a slight increase from October to November. "If this holds, this is the bottom," Ferguson said.