I’ve always called George Zeller the scariest man in Cuyahoga County.
The reason, George - really a gentle man - has the always troubling numbers on jobs and job losses for this area and the state. He’s been collecting figures on jobs and unemployment for years, now via Cuyahoga County government.
In May, he reported, “The lengthy 2000s recession has been extraordinarily damaging in Ohio.”
Well, I guess we knew that.
He places the loss at 208,041 jobs between 2000 and 2007.
Cuyahoga County’s job loss 2000-2007 was 77,524 jobs. Now that is scary.
His latest update on unemployment claims reports more likely job losses.
“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.
For Zeller’s data go to:
Links:
[1] http://www.nacs.net/~georgez/newclaims052408.pdf
[2] http://realneo.us/content/sam-miller-funniest-man-town
[3] http://realneo.us/content/roldo-bartimole-0
[4] http://realneo.us/content/see-saw-economics-here-down-over-there