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The Idaho Workforce Development Council held a full-day meeting on April 5, 2018, in Meridian, where Vice Chair B.J. Swanson led discussions on Idaho's urban-rural labor market divide. A presentation highlighted that urban Idaho is experiencing economic growth while rural Idaho faces demographic challenges and a "tipping point," with rural workers dealing with counterintuitively high costs of living despite lower wages. Council members discussed workforce migration patterns, commuting trends, and the difficulty rural areas face in retaining younger workers, particularly millennials, due to economic pressures.
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