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Dayton Business Journal...
100 labor markets
lose private-sector jobs
Monday, June 6, 2011
Photo: The nation’s 100 biggest labor markets have fewer private-sector
jobs today than they did three years ago. A factor in Dayton’s decline
was the GM assembly plant in Moraine, which was shuttered in late 2008.
Every corner of America still feels the pain of the Great Recession,
including Dayton.
The nation’s 100 biggest labor markets have fewer private-sector jobs
today than they did three years ago, according to an analysis by The
Business Journals, the online division of the Business Courier’s parent
company, American City Business Journals Inc.
The Dayton market lost 25,900 private-sector jobs between April 2008
and 2011. Dayton now has 305,200 private-sector jobs, down 7.8 percent
from 331,100 jobs from three years earlier.
A factor in the local job loss was the loss of two sizable business.
The Dayton-area General Motors Co. plant closed in December 2008 and
NCR Corp. began its relocation to Georgia in 2009.
The U.S. economy was flying high in April 2008, posting the largest
number of private-sector jobs for any April since the beginning of the
21st century. But the subsequent economic slide has stripped away 6.7
million jobs in three years, according to the latest data from the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Los Angeles area suffered the sharpest three-year decline in raw
numbers. It now has 387,500 fewer private-sector positions than it did
in 2008. Las Vegas was hit with the biggest drop in percentage terms, a
slide of 13.8 percent in three years.
Click Dayton Business Journal for a national story and a
state-by-state breakdown of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
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