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Dayton
Business Journal...
Dayton
adds
4,800 jobs in 12-month period
by DBJ
Staff
Monday,
June 4, 2012
The Dayton
region is showing signs of economic recovery. The area added 4,800 jobs
in past
year, which ranks it No. 46 in the nation in terms of raw jobs added.
On a
percentage basis, the new jobs represent a 1.3 percent jump, which
ranks Dayton
No. 36 nationally, according to an On Numbers report.
On Numbers
totaled the latest employment figures for the nation’s 100 biggest
labor
markets, using newly released data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics .
The 100
major metros had 89.81 million nonfarm jobs in April 2012, up 923,500
from the
same month a year ago. The year-to-year increase was 1.04 percent.
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During the
one-year period, the Dayton region added more jobs than cities such as
Minneapolis, Boise, Buffalo, Fresno, Calif. and Las Vegas.
The Dayton
region has benefited recently from numerious expansion projects or new
facilties from Fortune 500 companies. GE Aviation, a division of
General
Electric Co., has been adding jobs in Dayton as it builds a $61 million
research center on the campus of the University of Dayton . In
addition, Caterpillar recently opened
a local facility with 500 employees and Omaha, Neb.-based ConAgra Foods
Inc.
has been growing its manufacturing facility in Troy.
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here for a slideshow of the worst 10 states for unemployed workers.
As for
other Ohio cities:
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Cincinnati ranked No. 17 nationally (adding 17,100 jobs);
• Columbus
ranked No. 28 nationally (adding 10,200 jobs);
• Akron
ranked No. 63 nationally (adding 2,800 jobs);
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Youngstown ranked No. 73 nationally (adding 1,100 jobs);
• Toledo
ranked No. 87 nationally (losing 400 jobs); and
• Cleveland
ranked No. 100 nationally (losing 7,900 jobs
New York
City and Stockton, Calif., led the way for job growth. New York posted
the
strongest raw gain, adding 85,000 nonfarm jobs in 12 months. Stockton’s
increase of 4.38 percent, the biggest in proportionate terms, is being
driven
by an upswing in construction.
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