It’s official: we suck not only at creating jobs, we suck at keeping them
March 7th, 2008 by Wayne Garcia in Save our young
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater lost more jobs from January 2007 to January 2008 than anywhere else in the state of Florida, according to stats released today by the state’s Agency for Workforce Innovation.
11, 700 jobs went bye-bye from greater Tampa Bay over the 12-month period.
(Waiting a few seconds for that to sink in.)
Hot on our tails were Bradenton-Sarasota (-11,100 jobs) and the Fort Myers area (-10,800 jobs). Not a good year for the gulf coast.
Download the numbers here (.pdf file)
The Tampa Chamber, for its part, counters with news of the creation of 410 aircraft maintenance jobs at Tampa International Airport.
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March 11th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Well duh,
That’s what happens when a red-hot housing market completely crashes.
All those new construction jobs suddenly disappeared.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Uhh, weird. I have absolutely no memory of making that comment.
It’s not even snarky enough to warrant copping my name …
March 14th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Tampa has no working plan on stimulating economic growth. I yet to see a plan to attract business into the Tampa area. If there is such a plan, I\\\’d love to see it. Until then, if we can\\\’t attract business to the area we will continue to see college grads leaving the area once they graduate.
July 19th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
An excellent slideshow on global education and population issues:
“Did You Know?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U