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George Nemeth · What’s the opportunity?
June 6th, 2008
Yeah, we know it’s bad. What can we change now to alter the future?
“During the first nine weeks of the second quarter of 2008, Ohio new claims for unemployment have been 19.8 percent higher than they were during the first nine weeks of the second quarter of 2007…So, the problem of job losses from the continuing 2000s recession remains a statewide problem across Ohio and within the Cleveland-Akron-Lorain-Elyria region,” Zeller’s latest report says.
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June 6th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
There’s data, and then there’s the interpretation of it. It isn’t clear at all that job losses are related to the recession of the early 2000’s. It’s more likely that they are associated with longer-term structural weaknesses in Ohio’s economy, relative to the world economy in which it operates. As to Cuyahoga County’s job losses, it’s likely that Cuyahoga County is chasing jobs to nearby counties with high government overhead and associated taxation.