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 |
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through 06-2013 |
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| Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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Change
over prior |
| County |
Period |
Labor Force |
Employed |
Unemployed |
Rate % |
year 2011 |
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| Wicomico |
11-Feb |
52506 |
47333 |
5173 |
9.9 |
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| Wicomico |
11-Mar |
53116 |
48391 |
4725 |
8.9 |
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| Wicomico |
11-Apr |
52961 |
48485 |
4476 |
8.5 |
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| Wicomico |
11-May |
53444 |
48877 |
4567 |
8.5 |
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| Wicomico |
11-Jun |
53825 |
48951 |
4874 |
9.1 |
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| Wicomico |
11-Jul |
54139 |
49273 |
4866 |
9 |
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| Wicomico |
11-Aug |
53423 |
48706 |
4717 |
8.8 |
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| Wicomico |
11-Sep |
53821 |
49172 |
4649 |
8.6 |
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| Wicomico |
11-Oct |
53384 |
48809 |
4575 |
8.6 |
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| Wicomico |
11-Nov |
53153 |
48516 |
4637 |
8.7 |
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| Wicomico |
11-Dec |
53213 |
48619 |
4594 |
8.6 |
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| Wicomico |
12-Jan |
51246 |
46321 |
4925 |
9.6 |
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| Wicomico |
12-Feb |
52605 |
47554 |
5051 |
9.6 |
99 |
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| Wicomico |
12-Mar |
53073 |
48351 |
4722 |
8.9 |
-43 |
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| Wicomico |
12-Apr |
52786 |
48389 |
4397 |
8.3 |
-175 |
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| Wicomico |
12-May |
53608 |
49253 |
4355 |
8.1 |
164 |
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| Wicomico |
12-Jun |
54256 |
49598 |
4658 |
8.6 |
431 |
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| Wicomico |
12-Jul |
54877 |
50349 |
4528 |
8.3 |
738 |
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| Wicomico |
12-Aug |
53372 |
49007 |
4365 |
8.2 |
-51 |
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| Wicomico |
12-Sep |
52893 |
48773 |
4120 |
7.8 |
-928 |
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| Wicomico |
12-Oct |
52487 |
48385 |
4102 |
7.8 |
-897 |
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| Wicomico |
12-Nov |
52603 |
48276 |
4327 |
8.2 |
-550 |
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| Wicomico |
12-Dec |
52709 |
48085 |
4624 |
8.8 |
-504 |
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| Wicomico |
13-Jan |
51189 |
46296 |
4893 |
9.6 |
-57 |
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| Wicomico |
13-Feb |
51438 |
46764 |
4674 |
9.1 |
-1167 |
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| Wicomico |
13-Mar |
52101 |
47607 |
4494 |
8.7 |
-972 |
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| Wicomico |
13-Apr |
51713 |
47508 |
4205 |
8.1 |
-1073 |
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| Wicomico |
13-May |
52672 |
48290 |
4382 |
8.3 |
-936 |
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| Wicomico | 13-Jun | 52557 | 47786 | 4771 | 9.1 | -1699 | p |
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-7620 |
less |
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SOURCE: BLS, LAUS |
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13-Jul-13 |
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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.
ReplyDeleteOur 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?
But hey, that won't stop Norm Conway and Jim Mathias from running for re-election tauting their "successful" terms.
ReplyDeleteJoe, we NEED you to run for county executive next year!
ReplyDeleteStart a business around here that takes EBT and you will be a success!
ReplyDeleteThese 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.
ReplyDeleteThis can't be accurate. O'm said we have recovered 90% of the jobs, didn't he??
ReplyDeleteYet somehow there is enough surplus to provide Joe Arthur with employment. Unbelieveable.
ReplyDeleteIt 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.
ReplyDeleteThis is particularly true in the hospitality and retail sectors , both of which account for a high number of jobs here.
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!
ReplyDeleteWhat 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.
ReplyDeleteIn 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.
ReplyDeleteBottom line - bend over residents of Wicomico County because your elected officials have literally raped you.
The local employment situation is totally unsustainable. This cannot continue much longer as we are going the way of Detroit.
ReplyDeleteJoe - 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDelete4:03 That's why Cadista is investing $10 million in a plant expenasion that will create 200 good paying jobs. Get a grip
ReplyDeleteCadista is a drop in the economic bucket.
ReplyDeletehey 4:03 .., name one significant business that has failed in the past two years.
ReplyDeleteForget 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
And thanks to Mayor Jim-Beau there's another unemployed person -- Dr. Lore Chambers
ReplyDeleteCadista will be sorry shortly!
ReplyDeletewhat a stupid comment. $10 million in LOCAL construction and 200 high paying jobs.
ReplyDeletename anything like that in the region
you are clueless
hey 6:31. those jobs lower unemployment here by half a percent
ReplyDeletetake a math course
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.
ReplyDeleteI don't see that happening.
To 7:18 - Ditto
ReplyDeleteIf 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.
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.
ReplyDeletewe aren't losing anywhere near that number of jobs
ReplyDeleteplease 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
7:34
ReplyDeleteyeah ... the owners are billionaires who could invest anywhere in the world I'm shocked they didn't seek your informed advice ...ha ha ha
This is pretty bad information. Wicomico is not all that big. I believe there are alot of people who are conducting business underground.
ReplyDeleteWith 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.
7:56.
ReplyDeletegood 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
To 7:56 & 8:01
ReplyDeleteI 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteJoe - this is pretty big information and should be shared with national media syndicates. I wonder how it looks elsewhere throughout the country.
8:28
ReplyDeletethe 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
uhhh 8:37 pretty sure the media tracks these stats without joe's help
ReplyDelete8:51
ReplyDeleteWhen was the last time the media reported on anything like this?
Things look so clear in retrospect.
ReplyDeleteThe voters in Salisbury made a big, big, mistake by not electing Albero for Mayor. These numbers help to prove it.
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.
ReplyDeleteAll of the struggling municipalities including the last bankruptcy filing, Detroit, did not do this. Wicomico should be no exception to the rule.
I'm sure most have heard of biblical reference to the 'Rapture'.
ReplyDeleteWell 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.
To 8:10 Posting
ReplyDeleteI 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?
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.
ReplyDeleteTo anon 741;pm
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
Reference 3:10 Posting
ReplyDeleteIt 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteWell 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.
ReplyDeleteTo 6:45 Posting
ReplyDeleteDITTO! I could have not said it any better.