"In Mass., 25,000 factory jobs lost" by Associated Press | September 14, 2009
The economic downturn has cost Massachusetts more than 25,000 manufacturing jobs.
That figure comes from the annual Massachusetts Manufacturers Register, which reports that industrial employment fell 6.4 percent in the Bay State between July 2007 and July 2009.
Massachusetts remains home to more than 9,100 manufacturers employing about 373,000 workers, with electronics continuing to be the top industrial sector.
The state directories are published by Evanston, Ill.-based Manufacturers’ News Inc. Publisher Tom Dubin said an educated workforce and strong biotechnology industry should help lay the groundwork for a recovery in Massachusetts.Promises, promises. The years of waiting have taken their toll, looter.
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And SO HAVE the LYING INSULTS of the Boston Glob!!!
"Hiring boom isn’t likely, but things are picking up" by Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | September 13, 2009
Really?
.... The gains in these sectors, however, are relatively small - just fractions of a percent of total employment.
"FRACTIONS" of a PERCENTAGE?
Then why the HYPE and HUBRIS of a FULL-LENGTH FEATURE, you cretinous filth?
Many industries continue to struggle. Manufacturing and construction together are losing thousands of jobs a month, according to state statistics.
Yeah, that's one of my main points during a diatribe because the Globe here crows about a handful of agenda-pushing bs jobs! Like in this article!!!!
Financial services firms, still shaking off the effects of the Wall Street meltdown, are cutting hundreds of jobs each month.
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State and local governments, hit by falling tax collections, are slashing jobs, too....
Good!
It’s tough out there. No doubt about it. But after months of unrelenting gloom, there are glimmers of hope for job seekers.
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The Massachusetts economy is on the mend, and the job market is showing signs of stabilizing.
Yeah, we are ONLY SHEDDING THOUSANDS rather than TENS of THOUSANDS of JOBS!
EEEE-oh, EEEE-oh! Titanic going down, cap'n.
Temporary employment, considered a leading indicator for labor markets, has ticked up in each of the past four months. Key sectors of the state economy have posted job gains.
Even though they are a FRACTION of a PERCENTAGE of the overall!
Employers, who froze hiring in the darkest days of the recession earlier this year, are beginning to fill positions....
Sick of this agenda-pushing slop yet?
Certainly, no one predicts a boom. The economic recovery is expected to be weak, the labor market even weaker. The state’s unemployment rate, now at 8.8 percent, is expected to rise into next year as employers remain cautious.
That's a "boom" in the WRONG DIRECTION, a**hole!!!!
How DECEPTIVE!!!!!!
But recent trends suggest a turnaround in the making.
THIS mean anything to you?
Universities and other educational institutions, which were slicing payrolls six months ago, added an average of 900 jobs a month from May to July, according to the most recent state employment data. Health care added an average of 1,200 jobs a month during that same period. Professional, scientific, and technical services, which include technology and biotechnology firms, gained an average of 400 jobs a month after shedding an average of nearly 3,000 jobs a month around the end of last year.
Yup, ALL a FRACTION of the OVERALL -- if you EVEN BELIEVE the s***-shoveler (which I do not anymore).
“Some of our stronger sectors are showing signs of stabilizing,’’ said Elliot Winer, a regional economist based in Sudbury. “The opportunities that are out there right now require education, training, and skills.’’
Technology, for example. Hiring is picking up in that sector....
Yeah, in INDIA and CHINA!!!
Health care, of course, has become a stabilizing force in the Massachusetts economy. It’s one of the few sectors that added jobs over the past year, according to state statistics. For example, Hebrew SeniorLife, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, recently said it plans to hire 250 workers - including nurses, nursing assistants, cooks, and food servers - for its new health center in Dedham, slated to open next month.
Are YOU KIDDING ME? It deserves a SECOND MENTION, huh?
What, they also COUNT THOSE JOBS TWICE!?
Other sectors are showing signs of life. Retailers, hit hard by the pullback in consumer spending, have added a modest number of jobs in the past three months. Restaurants and hotels, too, have posted job gains recently.
You know, if EVERYONE is ADDING JOBS, WhereTF are we LOSING THEM?!!!
This is JOURNALISM in 21st-century Amerika?
And with companies paying strict attention to bottom lines as they wait for the recovery to gain steam, there’s solid demand for accountants, said Dave Sanford, executive vice president at Winter Wyman Cos., a Waltham staffing firm....
The overall outlook appears to be brightening nonetheless....
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What a piece of absolute crap that article was!
And since ONE FACTORY RECALLED SOME WORKERS the WHOLE ECONOMY has been SAVED!!!
Wait until you see the QUALIFIERS in THIS ONE!
(Blog editors note: my college writing instructor told us that words like but, still, if, may be, could be, yet, etc, were BAD WORDS for a REPORT)
"Early signs of an industrial rebound; Wisconsin factory hires new workers" by Peter S. Goodman, New York Times | September 13, 2009
MEQUON, Wis. - At the Rockwell Automation factory here, something encouraging happened recently that might be a portent of national economic recovery: Managers reinstated a shift, hiring a dozen workers.
We've lost 7 MILLION JOBS, damn you!!!
After months of layoffs, diminished production and anxiety about the depths of the Great Recession, the company - a bellwether because most of its customers are manufacturers themselves - saw enough new orders to justify adding people.
Given the panicked retreat that has characterized life on the American factory floor for many months, any expansion registers as a hopeful sign for the economy....
PFFFFFFFFTTTT!!!!!
EAT THAT HOPE, f***er!
Yet these indications, while welcome, promise no vigorous expansion: For now, factory overseers remain uncertain that a lasting resurgence is at hand, making them reluctant to hire workers aggressively and invest in new equipment....
Or they have headed for India and China.
Keith D. Nosbusch, chairman and chief executive of Rockwell: “The deceleration is slowing, but we haven’t seen the bottom yet. We have yet to see a turnaround.’’
How many months has the paper been saying recovery?
The tentative signs of factory improvement largely reflect a replenishing of inventories after months of weak sales, rather than an increase in demand for goods. For manufacturing to return to strength and help power a broader economic recovery, consumers would have to start buying more products, experts say.
Yeah, blame the tapped-out, impoverished, unemployed consumers again.
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Still, the mere process of expanding inventories could be enough to sustain several months of increased production, say economists. That could eventually generate more factory jobs, giving workers money to spend at other businesses. And that might instill enough momentum for a broader economic expansion.
“After one of the most incredible cutbacks and slicing away ever, just replenishing inventories is sufficient to maintain increased output,’’ said Allen Sinai, chief global economist at Decision Economics. “It’s part of the process of recovery in the United States, which is imminent.’’
So one guy says we haven't seen it, the other says we are in it. I know what we are in, readers, and it doesn't smell too good!
On Wall Street and in academic circles, where economists pick through often contradictory indicators for evidence of revival, the situation inside American factories is of crucial interest. Though manufacturing has diminished as a share of the economy, it still employs 11.7 million people and tends to trace the ups and downs of broader business prospects, making it a useful indicator of overall economic vigor.
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The recent manufacturing data have been seized on by many economists as a signal that the recession is, technically speaking, already over or nearing an end.
Yeah, for the RICH and the ELITE, that's it!!!!
“Those are genuine signs that this economy has turned the corner and begun to recover,’’ said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group.
How many times have we heard that, whether it be war or anything else?
How many corners we gotta turn?
However, for now, growth in manufacturing jobs is mostly just a hope. Though improved business prospects appear to have tempered layoffs, manufacturing lost 65,000 net jobs in August, according to the Labor Department, adding to more than 2 million jobs in the sector that have disappeared since the recession began.
All with a PERSON and a LIFE behind it! DON'T FORGET THAT, world!!! Kinda gets lost amongst the jew jargon.
Factory managers doubt whether American consumers - still reeling from lost jobs and savings - can snap back vigorously enough to restore manufacturing.
“I’ve got 22 years of experience, and I’ve never seen anything like this,’’ said Mike Laszkiewicz, 48, vice president and general manager of Rockwell’s power control business. “This is a tough one. I’m a little uncertain which way this is going to go.’’All those Fed geniuses that wrecked this economy said they know.
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