Ohio job losses worst since WWII, report says

[Algorem]

Source: Plain Dealer

Posted by Frank Bentayou February 20, 2008 18:46PM
Categories: Breaking News

The more than 209,000 non-farm jobs Ohio lost from 2000 to 2007 comprised the largest proportionate decline in employment since the end of the Great Depression, a national manufacturing trade group said Wednesday.

Employment dropped by 3.7 percent, the biggest seven-year drop since the period starting in 1939, near the end of the Depression and including the years the U.S. military absorbed millions of American workers to fight World War II...

McMillion, also in Washington, said Ohio lost 23.3 percent of its manufacturing sector jobs, or 236,000 positions, over the recent seven years. Some other sectors gained jobs. It was a period, he said, of markedly lower capital investment in domestic industrial capacity in Ohio and throughout the nation.

It was also a period, he said, when American consumers and the government borrowed $10.3 trillion, "what should have been a tremendous stimulus," but it scarcely helped American workers.





DISAPPEARING JOBS
A report released Wednesday shows that 13 metro areas in Ohio saw manufacturing employment plunge from 2000 to 2007:

Springfield: -46.9 percent

Sandusky: -36.5 percent

Steubenville-Weirton, W.Va.: -31.4 percent

Dayton: -31.2 percent

Lima: -30.7 percent

Canton: -30.6 percent

Youngstown: -27.3 percent

Mansfield: -25.7 percent

Cleveland: -25.2 percent (48,800 jobs)

Columbus: -24.4 percent

Toledo: -22.6 percent

Cincinnati: -18.4 percent

Akron: -17.5 percent (10,000 jobs)

SOURCE: American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition






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[liberal N proud]

1. Booming economy

:sarcasm:

[samplegirl]

2. Bush's second term really did us in

things did not stay the same they got worse. Everyones jobs being affected by this loss. We are about to lose our fire station due to lack of funds.

[Crazy Dave]

3. It blows you away when you listen to the news

And literally in the same broadcast you'll hear, "Nationwide there were only 10,000 job losses this past quarter", then they start reading the local headlines, "Last quarter in the state of Florida there were over 18,000 job losses in the construction industry alone". WTF?:grr:

[samplegirl]

4. Bush's second term really did us in

things did not stay the same...it got even worse. I don't know if Ohio will ever recover.

[Crazy Dave]

7. Even months into the second term

Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh and Hannity were still saying we were in a "Clinton recession"

Talk about spin :crazy:

[mrcheerful]

5. Yep and Ohio morons will do what the morons did in Michigan

Blame the democratics in office. I see it on the state forum sites all the time. It's all Granholms fault that the big 3 have cut back on workers and the big 3 leaving for off shore slave labor. Republican majority puts out crap for the rich and that too is Granholm and the democratics fault for not stoping it, never mind the fact that pukes have enough members to over turn anything Granholm tries to stop.

[samplegirl]

11. Well even the Ohio Bushbots

have cut their own throats. Things are about as bad as they can get here in N.E. Ohio!!!

[OhioChick]

6. Things are Bad Here, n/t

[InkAddict]

8. More on faulted Ohio policies and solutions

http://www.policymattersohio.org/pdf/MeetingTheChallenge2008_02.pdf

This doesn't even begin to address the job losses in Ohio in other sectors.

Add in the losses in the service sector jobs lost to employers leaving the state and jumping on the foreign outsourcing bandwagon.

[Phred42]

9. The Logical result of 25+ years of INSANE Conservative Economic Policies

I include Clinton in this. NAFTA, GAT, WTO, Telecommunications Act

[fasttense]

10. Yup, that "free market" crap

sure let those American jobs go free.

Come on people now, we all need to learn how to clean bathrooms and scrub floors for a living.

[HughBeaumont]

12. Right. Maybe this will kick my state in the head once and for all . . .

to

STOP PUTTING REPUBLICANS IN OFFICE, LEGALLY OR ILLEGALLY!! JUST STOP!!

Repuke support here is moving beyond annoying to just downright vomitous.

[AngryOldDem]

13. Here's another bit of "good news" about the situation in Ohio.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=172x23208

Foreclosures in Dayton up 145% in 2007, over 2006.

[Joanne98]

14. We know, we know!