Maryland employers added nearly 25,000 jobs last year, according to new estimates — the best performance since 2006, but one that still leaves the state with more than 80,000 jobs to make up, given the recession's losses.
At this rate of employment growth, it will take Maryland until 2015 to dig out of the job-loss hole. Getting back to a truly normal employment situation would take even longer because population growth calls for the constant creation of new jobs.
Economist Richard Clinch thinks Marylanders shouldn't count on faster job growth this year because efforts to rein in the federal budget are rippling through the state's sizable base of government contractors. Unmanned aircraft maker AAI said Tuesday that it was immediately laying off 184 of its 1,650 workers in the Hunt Valleyarea to prepare for leaner times.
This Maryland jobs report reminds me of an old history lesson whereby Germany's propaganda minister - Joseph Goebbels - announced to the German citizens that Germany was 'kicking the allies butt' when in fact Russia was lobbing artillery into Berlin and the US and its allies were crossing the Bridge at Remagen - over the Rhine River into Germany's heartland.
ReplyDeleteMy dad - Sergeant LA Miller - was right there with the 78th Lightning Division and was fortunate enought to survive to tell me the entire story.
To Beezer
ReplyDeleteI have to hand it to you - you are pretty astute since the information being emanated is from surveys - so who performed the survey? Answer: Your government!
The article goes on to say;
"The job figures, drawn from surveys, are preliminary. They could be substantially changed — up or down — when the labor agency incorporates additional employment information with its annual "benchmark" revisions in March
Thats only if you use Governor O'Dumbass math rules !!!!
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many of these jobs were for the holiday season and also how many of them were in Ocean City.
ReplyDeleteok, fine. how many were lost in 2011, how many gave up, how many had to take a part-time job, how many, how many, how many...
ReplyDeletethis is not being reported correctly. if you believe our "government" you're stupid...
I believe this to be a bold faced lie.
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