One in eight Tennessee factory jobs gone since 2007

7 Responses to “One in eight Tennessee factory jobs gone since 2007”

1. oatka writes
   November 2nd, 2009 4:05 pm

   How many civil servant jobs have been created in the meantime?

   Many towns used to be bee hives of industrial activity (saw mills, paper mills and associated manufacturers). Today, the only new buildings in those areas are being used by the state to process medical and social services cases.

2. Geert De Lombaerde writes
   November 2nd, 2009 11:01 pm

   Interesting question, oatka, and here is a partial answer from the state’s Labor Market Reports:

   From July 2007 to July 2009, the federal government added 2,000 jobs in Tennessee, growing to 50,700. The state government (ex-education) added 2,100 jobs, growing to 50,500. And local governments (again, ex-education) added 24,900 people to their payrolls, growing to 152,000.

   The total: 29,000 jobs and almost 13 percent over two years. Now, they’re not at all medical/social service workers of the kind you’ve described, but this gives us a general indication of government’s growth.

   Check http://www.state.tn.us/labor-wfd/lmr/ for more numbers.

3. SouthernIndie writes
   November 3rd, 2009 8:12 am

   Added government jobs are also the hardest to
   get rid of after the economy improves. Seems
   they all start doing such “Essential work”
   that they must be continued and put under
   Civil Service for added protection!

4. myron_monk writes
   November 3rd, 2009 11:47 am

   In this era, the government jobs are created at the expense of the private sector. We’ll see that unemployment will not be changed a year from now… and eventually, we’ll all be accustomed to the normal double-digit unemployment rates the Europe sees even during “good times”.

5. Blue writes
   November 3rd, 2009 1:50 pm

   This reports shows that the downfall started under Bush. If he had known what to do, he could have stopped a lot of the job loss.

6. EddieA writes
   November 3rd, 2009 7:03 pm

   Taxation caused the moves to Mexico. In an upcoming novel, heavy taxation by the United States government, to the pharmaceutical companies, will result in all “real” medicine being produced in Mexico. That is not a bad thing if the cost is less.

7. CSR writes
   November 6th, 2009 8:22 am

   This report shows that the downfall started when the Democrats gained a majority in Congress. If Pelosi and Reid hadn’t worked so hard to destroy our economy, those job losses could have been stopped.