Even though Idaho’s unemployment rate is still 9.4% (for several months now) it actually edged up by 500 newly unemployed, for the month of June.

To make matters worse, the Idaho Department of Labor says most of the 15,000 people who found jobs in June, are filling existing positions.  In other words almost no new jobs were created.

Sadly the 15,000 who found work is the highest number since October 2010, yet still far below the average hirings before the 2007/8 credit crisis.

Idaho officials also said that 1,800 unemployed people stopped looking for work in June.