Job creation in PA - PhillyBlog

JenniferKronstain · #1 (**permalink**) 06-07-2004, 07:15 PM

Statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau's new service:

Local Employment Dynamics show that Pennsylvania had over 1.3 new jobs created in 2002 by either new area businesses or the expansion of employment by existing firms.

Pennsylvania's Job Creation Rate, 2002 is the Pennsylvania State Data Center's June Map of the Month. The map be viewed and or printed at
http://pasdc.hbg.psu.edu/pasdc/whats...the_month.html

eldondre · #2 (**permalink**) 06-07-2004, 10:32 PM

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From 1993 through 2003, employment in the Philadelphia metro area (the city and eight suburban counties) rose 12.5 percent. All together, the region added 266,000 jobs over the decade.

But in that same period, employment fell in Philadelphia city by 2.5 percent. The city ended up 10,000 jobs thinner than it began.

Keep in mind that this period included the Roaring '90s, America's longest economic expansion on record. Even with the 2001 recession and subsequent "jobless recovery," employment nationwide expanded 17.2 percent in the 1993-2003 period.

You can't blame the weather, the Sun Belt, or something in the water for Philadelphia's lame performance. After all, if you subtract the city, employment in our area actually outpaced the nation, growing 19 percent.

But that was all there was. All the region's net job growth occurred in the suburbs; none of it happened in Philadelphia.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/8847559.htm

rlc · #3 (**permalink**) 06-08-2004, 12:33 PM

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Local Employment Dynamics show that Pennsylvania had over 1.3 new jobs created in 2002 by either new area businesses or the expansion of employment by existing firms.

1.3 jobs. Was it really that bad Jen!

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