ANNAPOLIS, MD (June 17, 2011) – Governor Martin O’Malley issued the following statement today regarding the U.S. Department of Labor jobs report for May:
“While May was a tough month for job creation in Maryland, other trends suggest that we continue to move in the right direction. On the year, Maryland has achieved the largest reduction in unemployment in nearly three decades. For 26 straight months, we have successfully reduced or held our unemployment rate steady. Today, it is 25% lower than the national unemployment rate and 26,000 more Marylanders have jobs than did in January.
“Maryland is better positioned for job growth because of the tough choices we have made together. Choices to cut $6.8 billion in state spending and defend our Triple A bond rating; choices to make record investments in our #1 ranked public schools; and choices that have led the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Milken Institute, and the Kauffman Index to rank Maryland in the top two or three among the 50 states for innovation, entrepreneurship, science and our ability to win in this new economy.
“The most important job to create is the next one.”
So, where are all the jobs on the shore?
ReplyDeleteSmoke some more crack.
ReplyDeleteOff course O'Malley is going to tout that unemployment in Maryland is going down.
ReplyDeleteAfterall - when the 26 weeks of Maryland unemployment benefits + 22 weeks of Federal unemployment extension + Congress's last federal unemployment extension - (due to severity of recession) are exhaused - the Maryland recipients are going to eventually fall out of the system.
Bottom line - O'Malley says that unemployment has fallen - when in effect - the people who have fallen out of the system are still unemployed and now unaccounted for.
It is all smoke and mirrors. What a scandral.
Spin, spin, spin. Put any spin you want on it, it still shows a loss. Check out Sparrows Point if you want to see what Maryland was once capable of. And if you want some employment on the Shore, diversify, don't put all your eggs in the poultry basket. Truck crops would bring back canning houses, you frittered away industry to accommodate liberal think houses like SU. And no one knows how to refurbish/renovate a school anymore!
ReplyDeleteJust continue to raise the tax burden on the workforce, that's all you simple minded politicians know. So sad.