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StateImpact Idaho
8:00 am
Mon June 25, 2012

Companies Receive Idaho Training Grants, But Make No Long-Term Promises

Credit Chris Butler / Idaho Statesman
Employees leave the XL Four Star Beef plant in Nampa in 2011 after the company announced plans to shut the plant down and layoff 522 people. XL Four Star received $564,231 in training fund grants.
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Last month, Transform Solar announced that it was closing and laying off about 250 people at its facility in Nampa. As StateImpact reported, the manufacturer of high-tech solar cells, had received $1.68 million in workforce training grants from the state of Idaho — money that the company will not have to pay back.

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StateImpact Idaho
7:45 am
Fri April 6, 2012

Rural Idaho Continues To Shrink

Credit Molly Messick / StateImpact Idaho
Fairfield, Idaho
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Rural Idaho counties are becoming, well, rural-er.

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau show populations continue to decline in rural parts of the state.

Census numbers released this week look at population movement between 2010 and 2011.  According to the Idaho Department of Labor’s analysis, more counties lost population over that year than at any other time since the 1980s.  Continue reading...