Wow! This is very interesting. Thanks a lot, Steve!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:46 AM, scooke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scooke@uidaho.edu">scooke@uidaho.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Visionaries,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Attached is a pdf of a presentation I gave to the UI Dpt of Ag Econ and Rural Soc on May 27. In it I compared Idaho’s economic structure to the U.S. and to Colorado. I also include a recent analysis by Michael Porter. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> My conclusions are: Idaho is growing a lot of low-wage low-skill jobs that pay about the national average and it is losing (or growing slowly) high-wage high-skill jobs that pay significantly less than the national average. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The result is a $10,000 to $12,500 / worker average wage gap that is growing relative to U.S. and Colorado respectively. This amounts to about a loss of $6.5 billion in wages per year (-$10,000 x 650,000 workers). </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Steve Cooke</p></div></div><br>=======================================================<br>
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