Based on information obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the New York Times has been able to tell us where jobs have grown and where they've declined since the pandemic in 2019. Over the past four years, 19 million jobs have been added, mostly in the sun belt states. Pennsylvania and other "blue wall" states, however, still are paying catch up. In 51 of Pa.'s 67 counties, the state has lost jobs between 2019 and 2023.
Lehigh and Northampton Counties are among those who've added jobs.
Between 2019 and 2023, Lehigh County gained 3,771 jobs, a modest increase of 1.9%.
The biggest gains are in health, education and transportation,
Between 2019 and 2023, NorCo added 2,548 jobs, an increase of 2.1% Unlike Lehigh, NorCo has seen a spike in both construction and manufacturing jobs. Like Lehigh, it has lost a lot of finance jobs.
The job losers should've taken their shots. Their fault for being dangerous and irresponsible.
ReplyDeleteThank the Lord that you read The New York Times. So we don't have to.....
ReplyDeleteConvenient of NY Times to leave government sector jobs off the list?
ReplyDeleteThe report includes all jobs, both in the public and private sectors. The industry breakdowns are only in the private sector.
ReplyDeleteThat particular report may or may not be as you say, BUT the BLS DOES collect and has stats on the number of government jobs broken down separately. (Check their website). The problem with the BLS stats are as most economists will say when pressed, "Well, it's the best we have". Truth be told with any given set of their surveys and reports --the methods, definitions and the survey questions have changed so much over the years that they are, as I say, mostly "phony baloney" especially on any comparative basis The unemployment and inflation stats are the worst of the lot. Headline unemployment is "U3", the MSM RARELY reports "U6".
DeleteDoes anyone know what would contribute to both counties losing a relatively high number of "finance" jobs? Is that related to the consolidation of the banking industry with the closure of bank branches?
ReplyDeleteIn keeping with the spirit of this comments section, make sure to blame and vilify the political leader of your choice.
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DeleteIt’s Bernie’s fault! Really though, I remember after 09/11 there was talk of the Valley becoming “Wall Street West” instead we got all the warehouses.
Delete19 million jobs added? I would say many of those jobs were people temporarily laid off from a job due to Covid. Then they went back to the same job. They like to count that as a created job, but really it was a job held in abeyance. A job temporarily suspended. My brother’s factory temporarily closed for Covid. He went back to the same position with no loss of service time, that is not a created job, yet they count it as such.
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