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Dayton Business Journal...
Ohio lost 346K
manufacturing jobs in decade
by G. Scott Thomas, DBJ Contributor
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Only California and Michigan lost more manufacturing jobs than Ohio in
the past decade.
Employment in the manufacturing sector has declined from 2001 levels in
49 states, including Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
Alaska was the only state to post gains in the sector, according to an
analysis by The Business Journals, the online division of the Dayton
Business Journal’s parent company, American City Business Journals Inc.
Ohio had 625,500 manufacturing jobs last month. That number was 345,600
less than what the state had in April 2001. Ohio was third worst in the
ranking.
Kentucky had 207,900 manufacturing jobs last month. That number was
82,800 less than what the state had in April 2001. Kentucky was No. 31
in a ranking of the raw number of jobs added (or lost) in the
manufacturing sector during the last decade.
Indiana, which lost 175,200 manufacturing jobs in the past decade, was
No. 9.
Alaska posted an increase of 100 jobs. California had the largest
decline, losing 572,400 manufacturing jobs since April 2001. It now has
1.2 million jobs.
Manufacturing represents 100,000 employees in the 12-county region
surrounding Dayton and contributes $4.7 billion in annual payroll and
$32 billion in annual sales, according to a Wright State University
study commissioned by the Dayton Tooling and Manufacturing Association.
This includes companies with local operations such as Honda Motor Co.,
AK Steel, Emerson Electric Co., Avery Dennison Corp. and Caterpillar
Inc.
In addition, Goodrich Corp., Eastman Kodak Co., Trimble Navigation
Ltd., Illinois Tool Works and GE Aviation, a division of General
Electric Co., all have large Dayton-area operations and help drive the
local manufacturing sector. Many of them have been hiring or expanding
recently, including GE Aviation breaking ground on its $51 million
research and development center in Dayton.
Click here for a national story and a state-by-state breakdown of
manufacturing-sector jobs data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Read it at the Dayton Business Journal
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