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July 1, 2026

Idaho’s Micron Subsidies, Minimum Wage & Immigration

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,...