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No real surprises here, just confirms what people who lived in those areas probably realized about the distribution of employment opportunities throughout the state.
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No real surprises here, just confirms what people who lived in those areas probably realized about the distribution of employment opportunities throughout the state.
I don't understand why this is news...there are almost always more jobs in big population centers. Companies will have openings here for a lot of reasons; mainly, a good population of educated and skilled workers, in a nice place where people are willing to live and raise a family. One of the hardest parts of living somewhere like Asheville or Winston-Salem has always been finding good work; there just isn't as much of it in the smaller communities.
I don't understand why this is news...there are almost always more jobs in big population centers. Companies will have openings here for a lot of reasons; mainly, a good population of educated and skilled workers, in a nice place where people are willing to live and raise a family. One of the hardest parts of living somewhere like Asheville or Winston-Salem has always been finding good work; there just isn't as much of it in the smaller communities.
My thoughts exactly.
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I don't understand why this is news...there are almost always more jobs in big population centers. Companies will have openings here for a lot of reasons; mainly, a good population of educated and skilled workers, in a nice place where people are willing to live and raise a family. One of the hardest parts of living somewhere like Asheville or Winston-Salem has always been finding good work; there just isn't as much of it in the smaller communities.
Yes, it's been harder to find viable employment in smaller communities for quite some time, but I think the story was pointing out how the gap between the areas that are doing well and the areas that have stagnated has widened.
The smaller communities (much smaller and more isolated than Asheville or Winston-Salem) may not have been the economic power houses like Raleigh and Charlotte decades ago, but there was a time when someone with a very basic education could find jobs in the more rural areas of the state quite easily, especially in the traditional manufacturing sectors. That's not so much the case anymore.
It's news because rural legislators think urban legislators are backwards, socialist and that our local leaders are a bunch of liberals who know nothing about business.
So you have counties like Lincoln that lost 200 people YOY versus Mecklenburg who gained 20,000 and Lincoln county support a bill to have the surrounding counties to take over Charlotte airport because Charlotte is too irresponsible to run an airport.
They don't let us raise the food tax even though the Charlotte chapter of the food & beverage supported it.
They threaten to take away funding for our LightRail, they get involved in local issues like raising property taxes...
When Boeing was shopping around, They involved some rural airport when they should've only focused on Charlotte & Greensboro.
Etc etc
Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham making up 70% of new jobs is news in that rural legislators should stay out of the way of Charlotte & Raleigh and stop acting like we are liberal, socialist Job killers and save the trickle down reaganomics rhetoric talking points for someone who cares.
I don't understand why this is news...there are almost always more jobs in big population centers. Companies will have openings here for a lot of reasons; mainly, a good population of educated and skilled workers, in a nice place where people are willing to live and raise a family. One of the hardest parts of living somewhere like Asheville or Winston-Salem has always been finding good work; there just isn't as much of it in the smaller communities.
While I don't disagree with the point you're making, Winston-Salem is not a good example to support it. Winston's MSA has consistently maintained a slightly lower unemployment rate than Charlotte's for a number of years. Same for Forsyth County vs. Mecklenburg.
While I don't disagree with the point you're making, Winston-Salem is not a good example to support it. Winston's MSA has consistently maintained a slightly lower unemployment rate than Charlotte's for a number of years. Same for Forsyth County vs. Mecklenburg.
Agreed. As recently as December, 2013, Forsyth County had a lower unemployment rate than Mecklenburg (8.8 percent vs. 9.3 percent). There's always a margin of error and those who have dropped out of the job search who aren't reflected in the numbers...but still it's an interesting statistical comparison.
I think a better example would be Charlotte/Raleigh metro areas compared to the truly rural, agrarian counties outside of commuting distance of the job centers of the state such as Scotland county (Laurinburg being the principal city about an hour and 45 minutes from Charlotte), and Edgecombe county (Tarboro being the principal city, a little more than an hour from Raleigh) (see page 12 of the link below). Places that many newcomers to NC on this forum probably haven't even heard of and unemployment was relatively high in those areas even during the so called boom years of the mid 2000's. The people there were probably wondering when Charlotte and Raleigh were really going strong 10 years ago... "When is all this big city prosperity ever going to reach my town?"
And I don't mean to be down on the rural areas of NC, because they have retained more of the old school North Carolina culture that has become much more diluted in the Triangle and Charlotte areas. But people there have struggled much more than the rest of the state because the economy was ideal for a world based on the economic climate of the mid- 20th century, when someone could drop out of school and go work in the mill and still have a decent place to live (albeit simple) and put food on the table with pride and dignity. Before so much manufacturing started being sent overseas to the lowest bidder. Not that not finishing school is something a person should aspire to, but for some who didn't have the academic aptitude or interest to be a biotech engineer (or other highly skilled labor) or someone who (more sadly) wanted to continue their education but had to drop out of school to help their struggling family survive and put food on the table, they at least could still make a living in those counties. That's not the case anymore. Consequently, those areas have fallen farther behind the rest of the state for the last several decades.
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