Idaho Pulse Podcasts

Recorded on Election Day 2026, this episode runs through the Idaho fights over money and schools: a state budget the discussion says has doubled in seven years to more than $14 billion, government as the state’s largest employer, public schools that never have enough, the case for school choice and the education tax credit, $400 million cited for illegal immigration alongside 14 bills that...

This episode turns basic supply-and-demand economics loose on Idaho’s biggest fights: the abortion measure likely headed for the November ballot, price controls and the minimum wage, cheap immigrant farm labor and depressed wages, and the tax subsidies used to lure Micron to the Treasure Valley. The through-line is the seen and the unseen — how policies with obvious, well-publicized winners quietly hurt the workers,...