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WORK: Greener in Washington

| May 20, 2011 10:00 PM

I keep hearing ads on television about how Idahoans need to go to college. I hear about the national average wage is higher than Idaho.

I am a Coeur d'Alene native who moved to Washington because the wages are so low in Idaho and at the time housing was sky high from the celebrity buy up of property a few years back.

Now I want to know where the rocket scientists are that passed the right to work bill in Idaho? That was then, and this is now, as stupid as it gets.

I am still looking for the high paying jobs that were just waiting at the state line as everyone was told. With that said, how can you send your kids to college on the wages you pay in Idaho.

The remaining workforce that are looking for better pay are leaving your state, just look at traffic into Spokane on any given morning commute.

Come on Idaho, pull your head out of... the sand and look around.

Don't even get me started on teachers' wages in our lovely state.

MARK MOSER

Spokane Valley