Annapolis - Change Maryland released new figures today on county employment levels following the release of the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program on January 8.
Under the program, Maryland's 24 jurisdictions can be measured on employment levels over time periods. By comparing the annual year-end average against other years, the data shows multiple-year trends for each jurisdiction.
The largest population centers of Prince George's, Baltimore County, and Baltimore City have lost the most jobs, in total numbers, from 2007 to 2011. These jurisdictions, on average, experienced employment level declines ranging from 16,000 to 17,000 each. Just two counties – St. Mary's and Howard – gained jobs during that time.
“Coming out of the recession, we're just not posting strong gains consistently, across the state,” said Change Maryland Communications and Policy Director Jim Pettit. “And we're finding that our largest jurisdictions are pulling employment levels down, and we need to see an opposite trend in order to restore economic performance statewide."
In percentage terms, St. Mary's and Howard led the state in job growth with gains of over 6% and nearly 3%, respectively. In percentage terms, eastern shore counties Kent, Cecil and Talbot led in declines with employment levels dropping on average just over 9%.
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3 comments:
I have got news for Change Maryland. They are way behind the 8th ball in that SBYnews has been keeping tabs on the local employment scene in regards to the BLS statistics for several years now.
At last tally - Wicomico has lost over 1400 workforce empoyees in less than a year. The Maryland employment scenario is much worse than bad - it is horrible.
Kent, Cecil and Talbot levels were NOT "dropping on average just over 9%"!
They dropped "on average TO just over 9%"!
There is a BIG difference between these two statements. I wish people trying to make a case with stats and think they are so good at them would be more careful how they express things.
They are counting on the fact that most Americans can't SPELL statistics, much less correctly ANALYZE them. Or understand them. Sheep aren't that good at math anyway.....
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