Washington Post writer explains why people leave Wyoming but love Idaho

A news analysis from The Washington Post investigated why people want to move to Idaho but leave Wyoming even though the states are relatively similar in terms of landscape and culture.
The answer may lie with coal-mining. Wyoming's population changes based on energy and coal demands. When there aren't many coal industry jobs, people flee the state.
Wyoming's economy is "at the mercy of the boom-and-bust cycles that characterize the global commodity market and sapped incentive to build up a more