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Every one of the top 100 U.S. labor markets lost private-sector jobs from April 2008 to April 2011, according to numbers culled from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, not a single Midwestern city cracks a top-10 list of cities that lost the most jobs, when expressed by the percentage of overall private-sector workforce.
Los Angeles, Las Vegas and other Sun Belt cities are feeling the most pain, writes G. Scott Thomas, who analyzed the data for The Business Journals. Las Vegas led the nation, losing 13.83 percent of its private-sector jobs during that three-year span, according to the analysis.
Detroit is the first Midwestern city on the list, ranking 14th with a 8.95 percent decline in private-sector jobs. Dayton, Ohio ranks second-worst in the Midwest, but doesn’t show up in The Business Journal data until 28th overall, with a 7.82 percent loss.
The Midwest does not escape unscathed in the numbers, however.
In terms of raw numbers instead of percentage, Chicago ranks second in the country. The Windy City shed 262,400 private-sector jobs in the three-year span, second only to Los Angeles, which lost 387,500 over the same time period. The data echoes a report Wednesday from our partner station WBEZ, on which the headline reads, “Fed: U.S. economy OK; Chicago? Not so much.”
Detroit ranks seventh on the list in terms of total private-sector jobs lost, losing 150,500 in the three-period analyzed.
