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Sunday, August 04, 2013

Wicomico Employment Conditions Worsen - US Bureau of Labor Statistics June Job Numbers Just Released - Shows Wicomico Lost Record Number of Workers

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the job numbers for our nations counties and metropolitan areas last night.  According to the report - Wicomico lost another record number of workers.  For the month of June - Wicomico lost 1,699 workers making it the worse month on record for the last 3 years.  This makes job loses for 12 consecutive months.  The jobs numbers - (see below) - shows that Wicomico had a June -2013 labor force of 52,557 workers compared to June - 2012 of 54,256 - or a net loss of 1,699 workers. Also - unemployment spiked from May's 8.3% to June 9.1%.  These numbers are terrible statistics and shows that our state/local economy continues to sag and erode despite population increases.


Labor Force Data By County, Not Seasonally Adjusted 
02-2011 through 06-2013
Source:  Bureau of Labor Statistics
Unemploy. Change over prior 
County Period Labor Force Employed Unemployed Rate % year 2011 
Wicomico 11-Feb 52506 47333 5173 9.9
Wicomico 11-Mar 53116 48391 4725 8.9
Wicomico 11-Apr 52961 48485 4476 8.5
Wicomico 11-May 53444 48877 4567 8.5
Wicomico 11-Jun 53825 48951 4874 9.1
Wicomico 11-Jul 54139 49273 4866 9
Wicomico 11-Aug 53423 48706 4717 8.8
Wicomico 11-Sep 53821 49172 4649 8.6
Wicomico 11-Oct 53384 48809 4575 8.6
Wicomico 11-Nov 53153 48516 4637 8.7
Wicomico 11-Dec 53213 48619 4594 8.6
Wicomico 12-Jan 51246 46321 4925 9.6
Wicomico 12-Feb 52605 47554 5051 9.6 99
Wicomico 12-Mar 53073 48351 4722 8.9 -43
Wicomico 12-Apr 52786 48389 4397 8.3 -175
Wicomico 12-May 53608 49253 4355 8.1 164
Wicomico 12-Jun 54256 49598 4658 8.6 431
Wicomico 12-Jul 54877 50349 4528 8.3 738
Wicomico 12-Aug 53372 49007 4365 8.2 -51
Wicomico 12-Sep 52893 48773 4120 7.8 -928
Wicomico 12-Oct 52487 48385 4102 7.8 -897
Wicomico 12-Nov 52603 48276 4327 8.2 -550
Wicomico 12-Dec 52709 48085 4624 8.8 -504
Wicomico 13-Jan 51189 46296 4893 9.6 -57
Wicomico 13-Feb 51438 46764 4674 9.1 -1167
Wicomico 13-Mar 52101 47607 4494 8.7 -972
Wicomico 13-Apr 51713 47508 4205 8.1 -1073
Wicomico 13-May 52672 48290 4382 8.3 -936 r
Wicomico13-Jun525574778647719.1-1699p
-7620 less 
p = preliminary. SOURCE:  BLS, LAUS workforce
r = revised 13-Jul-13

43 comments:

Anonymous said...

Despite all these woeful numbers and the future outlook, our local governments continue to try and squeeze every penny from those of us who are fortunate enough to be working.

Our property taxes increase even though our property values have shrunk to the 1999 level.

Every fee and cost continues to increase. More speed enforcement cameras pop up trying to get another $40.00 in the name of safety (and no, I don't speed nor have I gotten a ticket).

I'm afraid I do not see and reduction in spending to help defray costs.

Yet we continue to re-elect the same people to office.

Will anyone ever wake up?

Anonymous said...

But hey, that won't stop Norm Conway and Jim Mathias from running for re-election tauting their "successful" terms.

Anonymous said...

Joe, we NEED you to run for county executive next year!

Anonymous said...

Start a business around here that takes EBT and you will be a success!

Anonymous said...

These numbers can't be true. Just ask Obama or O'Malley or any other Democrat. They will shrug their shoulders and tell you how many jobs they have created. Look what 60 years of Democratic leadership has done for Detroit. They should change it to Deriot.

Anonymous said...

This can't be accurate. O'm said we have recovered 90% of the jobs, didn't he??

Anonymous said...

Yet somehow there is enough surplus to provide Joe Arthur with employment. Unbelieveable.

Anonymous said...

It has less to do with the economy and more to do with Affordable Health Care. Employers are transitioning from full time to part time ( 20 hours a week)workers in order to escape the federal mandate.

This is particularly true in the hospitality and retail sectors , both of which account for a high number of jobs here.

Anonymous said...

Thanks to Ireton, Pollit, and both councils. We taxpayers really appreciate all you have done to destroy us. Jake Day doesn't act ,like he has sense enough to come in from the rain. Every council meeting he acts scared to death and so nervous what a waste!

Anonymous said...

What else can we expect? We have been taxed into oblivion. We are over taxed, over-legislated, and over-regulated. Now we are harvesting what those factors have sowed.

Anonymous said...

In case you haven't noticed - Pollitt's last budget is nearing 130 million, and that was where it was before the recession hit. But hark, look at our local area workforce and it is a fraction of what it was before the recession hit.

Bottom line - bend over residents of Wicomico County because your elected officials have literally raped you.

Anonymous said...

The local employment situation is totally unsustainable. This cannot continue much longer as we are going the way of Detroit.

Anonymous said...

Joe - the national media like FOX or CNBC needs to see this information ASAP. This is way to big of a story to contain it to Salisbury. I have a suggestion - if you have any affiliate connections I hope that you will contact them and turn over this information.

Anonymous said...

I can tell you what has happened, the word is out, stay-a-way from Maryland. Look, you cannot fight the math. The taxes are simply to high for sustenance of businesses. There is no way a business can survive under these adverse conditions. It is simply to risky to conduct business in Maryland.

Anonymous said...

4:03 That's why Cadista is investing $10 million in a plant expenasion that will create 200 good paying jobs. Get a grip

Anonymous said...

Cadista is a drop in the economic bucket.

Anonymous said...

hey 4:03 .., name one significant business that has failed in the past two years.

Forget restaurants. For each one that fails , two more open and the low wage jobs contribute little to the economy

so , come on .... name a significant loss of tax paying employment

we are waiting

Anonymous said...

And thanks to Mayor Jim-Beau there's another unemployed person -- Dr. Lore Chambers

Anonymous said...

Cadista will be sorry shortly!

Anonymous said...

what a stupid comment. $10 million in LOCAL construction and 200 high paying jobs.


name anything like that in the region


you are clueless

Anonymous said...

hey 6:31. those jobs lower unemployment here by half a percent

take a math course

Anonymous said...

200 new jobs - humm - we still have a ways to go considering on average we are losing over a thousand jobs a month. At that rate - we'll need at least (5) new Cadistas a month to stay even in the employment arena.

I don't see that happening.

Anonymous said...

To 7:18 - Ditto

If I'm not mistaken wasn't Cadista the former Ford Laboratory or Trinity Pharmaceutical.

I'll make a deal with you 7:18 - we'll both send Candista's management flowers if they survive 2 years here in Maryland. Their management does not realize that they are 'ducks on a pond' caught right in the crosshairs of Maryland's regulators.

Anonymous said...

I have not seen any coverage written about these economic statistics in The Daily Times. One would think that they would have put this on the front page given that it is a local newspaper. Now I realize why people refer to the DT as good fishwrap.

Anonymous said...

we aren't losing anywhere near that number of jobs

please articulate any significant business we have lost

and forget the cambell soup dresser wayne crown nonsense.

those jobs were lost to globalization and have nothing to do with the state or county

so ... come on , name a significant loss that is directly attributable to local policy

Anonymous said...

7:34

yeah ... the owners are billionaires who could invest anywhere in the world I'm shocked they didn't seek your informed advice ...ha ha ha

Anonymous said...

This is pretty bad information. Wicomico is not all that big. I believe there are alot of people who are conducting business underground.
With so many immigrants now, the governments are starting to collapse. I believe we are soon going to seeing many more cities going belly up. I tend to agree with an earlier posting - 3.57 - the situation is not sustainable.

Anonymous said...

7:56.

good point

there is a difference between contributor employment and receiver employment

the salient issue for the entire region is how we stem the inflow of net users versus net contributors

Anonymous said...

To 7:56 & 8:01

I agree the situation is unsustainable. O'Malley is attempting to hype the creation of jobs - obviously with all of the government PR staff he has at hand, he is trying to convince the public that he has indeed created jobs. But when one closely examines the record - it shows he has feet of clay. This is soon going to come to an end and I'm afraid when it does, it is not going to be a very pretty ending.

Anonymous said...

I cannot ever recall in my lifetime seeing statistics like these. Obviously if the population is increasing then there should be a linear relationship to job growth. Quite the contrary - here we have population growth and a retraction of jobs. And it is precipitous, in that it is getting progressively worse.

Joe - this is pretty big information and should be shared with national media syndicates. I wonder how it looks elsewhere throughout the country.

Anonymous said...

8:28

the dirty secret is that there exists no " one maryland "

one maryland is code for the Baltimore Washington metroplex

Frankly they are fairing well

But the other 14 maryland jurisdictions are lagging and will continue to lag.

Federal policy makes it far worse because it is singularly focused on urban areas ... I . E ... votes

stop bashing local policy and focus on the real problem.

misguided purely political policy from the governor and the president

it's about votes. not what's best for the economy or us

Anonymous said...

uhhh 8:37 pretty sure the media tracks these stats without joe's help

Anonymous said...

8:51
When was the last time the media reported on anything like this?

Anonymous said...

Things look so clear in retrospect.

The voters in Salisbury made a big, big, mistake by not electing Albero for Mayor. These numbers help to prove it.

Anonymous said...

The county budget should have a linear relationship to the largest revenue stream - Income tax receipts. If the counties financial planners are not doing this then they are setting up the taxpayers.

All of the struggling municipalities including the last bankruptcy filing, Detroit, did not do this. Wicomico should be no exception to the rule.

Anonymous said...

I'm sure most have heard of biblical reference to the 'Rapture'.

Well you are witnessing it first hand, all of the taxpaying citizens are being raptured or disappearing and leaving only those who partake of the system. The numbers visibly show that our workers are disappearing in record numbers.

Anonymous said...

To 8:10 Posting

I agree, those that were working are definately going someplace. Where, I have no idea.

You don't think there are that many going on the public dole do you?

Anonymous said...

Everywhere I go I see others making small purchases and getting back cash. If one and one equals two, they are on the public dole. Be aware of your surroundings and you will realize where your tax money is going.

Anonymous said...

To anon 741;pm
The reason you have not seen these numbers in the Daily Times is that the DT is now controlled by Rick Pollitts office, on the editorial board is one Pat Peterson, Pollitts former finance guru. she is there for one reason and one reason only and that is too protect Ricky boy and his finance staff of magic numbers. With liberals controling this rag what do you expect.

Anonymous said...

Reference 3:10 Posting

It should be fairly easy to unseat Pollitt considering that there was such a dramatic increase in his last operational budget + his new tax & fee increases. I believe this time it will resonate with residences because so many have lost their jobs and are barely making ends meat.

Anonymous said...

To 5:21 I think Pollitt made a big mistake by increasing the tax rate to the maximum allowed under the revenue cap. He would have been better off giving the residents a little bit of a break. Plus, you add the recent county borrowing for the BM School and he really has pissed off a lot constituents. Both, Dems & Reps will move on it and I bet he will be out.

Anonymous said...

Well lets see now, we have a county council made up of six republicans and one democrat. Three republicans have flipped over to be liberals with Stevie Prettyman leading the way for John Hall and Matt Hollaway, Rick Pollitt now has the council he needs to advance his tax and spend agenda. Now lets watch out for next year and another tax increase. Bob Culver, Joe Hollaway and Gail Barkovitch are the only three that we can count on to watch out for the taxpayers of Wicomico County give them your support.

Anonymous said...

To 6:45 Posting

DITTO! I could have not said it any better.