Standing alongside the rectangular glow of a PowerPoint presentation, Sam Wolkenhauer plays up a nerdy persona. In May 2025, he led a group of North Idaho realtors through a slide deck on labor market trends, slipping in self-deprecating references to the Lord of the Rings, actuarial statistics and spreadsheets. Wolkenhauer clicked to a chart on unemployment claims. “One of the first things you have to understand about economists,” he told the group, “is we’re very petty and we’re very, very fixated on the aesthetic quality of our graphs.” Wolkenhauer, an economist and research analyst supervisor at the Idaho Department of Labor, has...
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