The US Bureau of Labor just reported their December jobs numbers for our nations Counties. According to their latest jobs numbers, Wicomico experienced its 3rd worse jobs postings to date - losing 1,207 workers. The unemployment rate also spiked for the 4th consecutive month and rose from November's 7.0% to December's 7.4%. The latest jobs report comes on the heals of Labinal - (one of Wicomico's last remaining manufacturers) - announcing a massive - 550 additional layoffs.
This makes Wicomico's 24th consecutive monthly jobs decline or jobs have been lost in 30 of the past 36 months. Folks - we are not making this up as you can check out the data for yourself.
| Labor Force Data By County, Not Seasonally Adjusted | |||||||
| 06-2011 through 12-2014 | |||||||
| Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics | |||||||
| Unemploy. | Change over prior | ||||||
| County | Period | Labor Force | Employed | Unemployed | Rate % | years 2011 - 2014 | |
| Wicomico | 11-Jun | 54190 | 49160 | 5030 | 9.3 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Jul | 53873 | 48862 | 5011 | 9.3 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Aug | 53146 | 48132 | 5014 | 9.4 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Sep | 53850 | 48976 | 4874 | 9.1 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Oct | 53011 | 48201 | 4810 | 9.1 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Nov | 52599 | 47690 | 4909 | 9.3 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Dec | 52369 | 47451 | 4918 | 9.4 | ||
| Wicomico | 12-Jan | 51936 | 46758 | 5178 | 10 | -295 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Feb | 52809 | 47651 | 5158 | 9.8 | -172 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Mar | 52995 | 48202 | 4793 | 9 | -606 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Apr | 52548 | 48193 | 4355 | 8.3 | -711 | |
| Wicomico | 12-May | 53647 | 49171 | 4476 | 8.3 | -31 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Jun | 54344 | 49585 | 4759 | 8.8 | 154 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Jul | 55112 | 50369 | 4743 | 8.6 | 1239 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Aug | 53792 | 49262 | 4530 | 8.4 | 646 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Sep | 53529 | 49208 | 4321 | 8.1 | -321 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Oct | 53333 | 48876 | 4457 | 8.4 | 322 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Nov | 52714 | 48180 | 4534 | 8.6 | 115 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Dec | 52867 | 48086 | 4781 | 9 | 498 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Jan | 51872 | 46806 | 5066 | 9.8 | -64 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Feb | 52155 | 47297 | 4858 | 9.3 | -654 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Mar | 52396 | 47872 | 4524 | 8.6 | -599 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Apr | 52204 | 48050 | 4154 | 8 | -344 | |
| Wicomico | 13-May | 53484 | 49261 | 4223 | 7.9 | -163 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Jun | 53517 | 48991 | 4526 | 8.5 | -827 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Jul | 54107 | 49843 | 4264 | 7.9 | -1005 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Aug | 53274 | 49302 | 3972 | 7.5 | -518 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Sep | 52763 | 48942 | 3821 | 7.2 | -766 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Oct | 52740 | 48814 | 3926 | 7.40% | -593 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Nov | 52563 | 48453 | 4110 | 7.80% | -151 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Dec | 52508 | 48484 | 4024 | 7.70% | -359 | |
| Wicomico | 14-Jan | 51049 | 46711 | 4338 | 8.50% | -823 | |
| Wicomico | 14-Feb | 50905 | 46757 | 4148 | 8.10% | -1250 | |
| Wicomico | 14-Mar | 51203 | 47261 | 3942 | 7.70% | -1193 | |
| Wicomico | 14-Apr | 51312 | 47729 | 3583 | 7.00% | -892 | |
| Wicomico | 14-May | 52566 | 48886 | 3680 | 7.00% | -918 | |
| Wicomico | 14-Jun | 52757 | 48811 | 3946 | 7.50% | -760 | |
| Wicomico | 14-Jul | 53498 | 49414 | 4084 | 7.60% | -609 | |
| Wicomico | 14-Aug | 52543 | 48598 | 3945 | 7.60% | -731 | |
| Wicomico | 14-Sep | 52101 | 48778 | 3323 | 6.40% | -662 | |
| Wicomico | 14-Oct | 52064 | 48643 | 3421 | 6.60% | -676 | |
| Wicomico | 14-Nov | 51478 | 47867 | 3611 | 7.00% | -1085 | r |
| Wicomico | 14-Dec | 51301 | 47529 | 3772 | 7.40% | -1207 | p |
| -16011 | less | ||||||
| p = preliminary. | SOURCE: BLS, LAUS | workforce | |||||
| r = revised | 4-Feb-15 | ||||||
now that Hogan is on top we need to get Jim and Jake out of office before this area will recover. Dave Ryan at SWED should be fired immediately.
ReplyDeleteI just read an article on Comcast.com that Maryland is 2nd in the nation behind New Jersey for foreclosures.
ReplyDeleteI think Dorchester County is also in really bad shape. I go back and forth there every other week. Houses in Cambridge are boarded up and there are empty businesses that can be seen from the highway. Both are starting to look a lot like Detroit.
ReplyDeleteCulver has a mountain to climb, but so glad it is a businessman with real world experience doing it instead of that live-off-the system, know-nothing, do-nothing bureaucrat!
ReplyDeleteBy the look at the shear number of business closures, it comes as no surprise. Have you been out to the Centre of Salisbury lately? Or how about the industrial park. Vacant store fronts everywhere. One opens and two stores close.
ReplyDeleteThe downtown plaza looks very bad. My wife and I took a drive-by tour through there a few nights ago and there are empty stores everywhere.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame that our local government allowed it to get this bad!!!! Awful!! Hopefully not too late to turn this around!!
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ReplyDeleteI think if they can do something, it still be many years before the county is in the black again and back to normal. This is nationwide. We need our manufacturing jobs back, and the government needs to repeal all the free trade agreements that brought us to this point! It's not just Maryland's problem but the nation as a whole. Until we start making our own stuff and exporting again, we will stay in this hole the government and corporations have dug for us.
Have great hope that Hogan and Culver can make some real progress in moving state/county forward and helping the burden on taxpayers. Almost no where to go but up thanks to Owemalley and Owepollitt.
ReplyDeleteIt just keeps getting worse and worse with each passing month. One would think that sooner or latter there would be a positive blip on the radar screen. But so far nothing.
ReplyDeleteI think Hogan and Culver will be great leaders. It's shame they will still have to deal with the liberal side of government that will try and put road blocks on every idea they have to fix this problem. I'm afraid this state is too liberal on the western shore for progress to move forward.
ReplyDeleteIt will take at least 10 years to get back to Wicomico's former glory. On the other hand, we might look like those abandoned western ghost towns that one watches on TV.
ReplyDeleteHey ricky does your county credit card still work LOL.
ReplyDeleteAs a retiree I am thankful that at least downtown has a brighter future than 4 years ago!
ReplyDeleteA lot of financial damage has been done here locally. With tier maps, rain tax, flush tax, tag fees, medevac fees, sales taxes, just to much to overcome for any rebound to occur. So much more incentive to go out of business than to stay in business. And that is what they have done.
ReplyDeleteLooks as though I'll be working until I can't get up anymore. No decent jobs period.
ReplyDeleteRick Pollitt focused to much on spending without adequate revenue increases. The two schools should have never been built. The spending coupled with a retraction in State funded transportation budget, plus, passing down of the school teachers pension liability onto the County, plus, a substantive change in industrial base (retraction) is a recipe for disaster. And that is what has occurred.
ReplyDeleteTo 3:44 - I am stumped to! By the look of the jobs trending - eventually we will wither to invisible.
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ReplyDeleteAs a retiree I am thankful that at least downtown has a brighter future than 4 years ago!
February 4, 2015 at 2:46 PM
You are in La La Land, Dumbo!!
Joe thanks for revealing this information, you know darn well what the local media would do with it. They are too concerned with keeping the sheeple asleep and stupid, like their parent MSM networks.
ReplyDelete4:48, Don't ALL of you find it interesting how NONE of the Main Stream Media expose ANY of this information??? Why, because they are CONTROLLED by special interests. The same ones that are pressuring the media to bash ANY republican. No different from the manufactured "Council Of No's". They will push this crap for the next 4 years, unless you dump your subscriptions and start watching WRDE, which is on your local cable and dish television. You'll find their news is current, LOCAL and far more professional.
ReplyDeleteReference 3:44 Poster - I agree. It is the PERFECT STORM.
ReplyDeleteOur family cancelled our subscription the The Daily Times several years ago. IMHO - it is TABLOID.
ReplyDeleteThis is front page news for any MSM or any other local media for that matter. By any journalistic standard WBOC, WMDT, The Salisbury Independent, this information should even be making National news which I predict will real soon. Once the regionals and/or nationals stumble onto this they will be all over this.
ReplyDeleteThank god for Bobby Culver for getting rid of the rift raft money suckers that thought they were safe under the politt regime now he needs to get rid of some more of the safe department heads and drug check the whole bunch of employees and get the rest of the trash workers out and get new clean workers willing to work in Keep up the great work Bobby and thanks for posting Joe great news you never hear about through other media
ReplyDelete1:48 - and every turd Friday you can go downtown and hang with the thugs.
ReplyDeleteNeed our SWED official to hang with Rick Perry to see how he does it.
ReplyDeleteTo 6:30 Poster - I would not be surprised if Rick Perry solicited a lot of the MD factory moves himself. I remember when he came to VA and informed Marylanders about what he thought about the Raintax.
ReplyDeleteI watched the PAC14 county council meeting last night and I heard the young guy that was sworn in on some civics council refer to the 'Braindrain'. He was so on point in that department. Once one looks at these jobs nos they can easily tell that 'they be gone' come graduation.
ReplyDeletei'm being told Dave Ryan is a good guy, but allows Ireton and Pollitt to take credit for his work.
ReplyDeleteIn all fairness, the county should be declared a disaster area just like NJ's shore after the 2011 hurricane.
ReplyDeleteAnd this environment is not conducive to deterring crime, homelessness, and improving ones living standards. What a shame.
ReplyDeletewhats ricky doing now
ReplyDeleteThe county drug and alcohol gestapo are alive and well and coming to a county department near you one by one. Long overdue and well welcomed by the majority.The days of being hidden from up above are over.Be plenty of good county jobs coming soon.
ReplyDeleteHOGAN DID A AWESOME JOB TODAY IN HIS SPEACH.
ReplyDelete6:42, let me tell you about this "Brain Drain" stuff. It's been around since my daughter went to high school here and graduated in '75. Nothing has changed.
ReplyDeleteShe came back for a short while after college, but there was nothing in her field here, so she left.
Going to join her shortly because I've only got a few years left, being an old fogey and all.
Be careful about what you wish for, as QE IV is on its way.
ReplyDeleteCounty executive Culver:
ReplyDeleteWe know you are a super busy man and have made great progress in such a short time but please when you find time go from department to department and get a real pulse from the employees whats going on first hand. Do not let department heads pull the wool over your eyes and make you think everything is fine.
Over by Super Giant, there are wondering homeless virtually everywhere. I have never seen so many people pushing shopping carts up and down the streets, across RT13, it is pitiful.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, there are simply no manufacturers left. Labinal, Standard Register, Maxum/Bayliner were the last of a dying breed.
ReplyDeleteWhat can we manufacture that can't be done at half the cost in MEXICO or CHINA?? Obama has destroyed our economy and is now destroying our freedom. In 10 years this will be a Muslim territory.
ReplyDeleteThis country added 1,000,000 new jobs over the past three months. Clearly Obama is not really at fault for our local embarrassment of an economy. Look at your local leaders and your own voting records and you'll find out why the shore is falling behind.
ReplyDeleteTo 7:11 Poster - Maybe now the people will see how the Democrats have plundered their own backyard, robbed our hip pockets, all the while diverting millions to their minions of friends. You never heard about Barbara Mikulski even coming to the shore until she saw what happened to Norman Conway. Now it is her turn to be put on the ropes - especially after the Labinal debacle.
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