News August 31, 2009

How many manufacturing jobs did YOUR state lose?

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The latest bit of recession-reminder news comes to us today from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: no state added manufacturing jobs in the past twelve months, and 49 of 50 lost jobs. According to the report only Alaska stayed flat, with Ohio, California and Michigan all shedding more than 100,000 jobs in the past year. Check out where your state falls on the list:

* Alaska, no change in manufacturing jobs
* Wyoming, loss of 200 manufacturing jobs
* District of Columbia, loss of 300 manufacturing jobs
* Hawaii, loss of 700 manufacturing jobs
* Montana, loss of 900 manufacturing jobs
* North Dakota, loss of 2,900 manufacturing jobs
* Nevada, loss of 3,800 manufacturing jobs
* Delaware, loss of 4,000 manufacturing jobs
* New Mexico, loss of 4,100 manufacturing jobs
* Rhode Island, loss of 4,500 manufacturing jobs
* Maryland, loss of 4,800 manufacturing jobs
* Vermont, loss of 4,800 manufacturing jobs
* South Dakota, loss of 5,100 manufacturing jobs
* West Virginia, loss of 6,600 manufacturing jobs
* Maine, loss of 6,700 manufacturing jobs
* New Hampshire, loss of 7,200 manufacturing jobs
* Idaho, loss of 7,300 manufacturing jobs
* Nebraska, loss of 9,600 manufacturing jobs
* Louisiana, loss of 10,400 manufacturing jobs
* Utah, loss of 13,700 manufacturing jobs
* Arizona, loss of 13,800 manufacturing jobs
* Mississippi, loss of 14,200 manufacturing jobs
* Colorado, loss of 15,000 manufacturing jobs
* Oklahoma, loss of 15,700 manufacturing jobs
* Connecticut, loss of 15,800 manufacturing jobs
* Massachusetts, loss of 16,300 manufacturing jobs
* Arkansas, loss of 19,600 manufacturing jobs
* Kansas, loss of 22,200 manufacturing jobs
* New Jersey, loss of 24,300 manufacturing jobs
* Washington, loss of 26,700 manufacturing jobs
* Missouri, loss of 28,100 manufacturing jobs
* Virginia, loss of 28,800 manufacturing jobs
* Oregon, loss of 29,800 manufacturing jobs
* South Carolina, loss of 29,900 manufacturing jobs
* Iowa, loss of 30,400 manufacturing jobs
* Kentucky, loss of 33,100 manufacturing jobs
* Alabama, loss of 35,400 manufacturing jobs
* Tennessee, loss of 38,500 manufacturing jobs
* Minnesota, loss of 39,000 manufacturing jobs
* Florida, loss of 42,300 manufacturing jobs
* New York, loss of 44,400 manufacturing jobs
* Georgia, loss of 52,400 manufacturing jobs
* Wisconsin, loss of 57,800 manufacturing jobs
* North Carolina, loss of 70,000 manufacturing jobs
* Pennsylvania, loss of 73,100 manufacturing jobs
* Texas, loss of 80,200 manufacturing jobs
* Indiana, loss of 80,800 manufacturing jobs
* Illinois, loss of 83,500 manufacturing jobs
* Michigan, loss of 108,900 manufacturing jobs
* California, loss of 123,400 manufacturing jobs
* Ohio, loss of 127,000 manufacturing jobs

Source: Business First of Buffalo

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mchinsky

Let’s face it. Most of those Jobs aren’t coming back. We are one of the most anti-manufacturing countries in the world and it is only getting worse. The forces working against it:

Unions
Environmental Regulations
Minimum Wage Laws
The ‘war on capitalism’ by our government
Unfriendly tax code
Cheap overseas labor who have none of the above to worry about.
http://www.geardiary.com Michael Anderson

mchinsky … OK, so Obama is to blame

Seriously, I get what you are saying, and to an extent agree – I mean, look at what the labor unions did while the car companies were threatened with folding up shop! They eventually gave some concessions, but it simply illustrated how hundreds of thousands of white collar workers were unceremoniously dumped while unions were ‘willing’ to drop to one teeth cleaning a year … and because of the ‘belt tightening’ of recent years most hourly folks made more than engineers anyway – and got guaranteed pensions and so on.

On the other hand, the issue with outsourced jobs has been around for decades – first it was Japan, which eventually got a better standard of living, then Korea, then Hong Kong & Taiwan, and now China and Indonesia. Of course, you could add to your list child labor, brutal treatment of workers, forced labor, and so on. You paint a one-sided picture – if you want a return to the 19th century, you need to portray the ups and downs …
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