Jobs report spotlights tough times
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A June jobs report showing a spike in North Shore unemployment since May is most likely a reflection of the hard time young people are having landing summer jobs or starting their careers, said Mary Sarris, executive director of the North Shore Workforce Investment Board.
Unemployment rates for North Shore cities and towns are still better than they were last year at this time, according to information the state released last week. But after declining slowly over the year, regional unemployment rates were either flat or up when compared with May's jobless numbers.
"Our unemployment rate did go up from 7 percent to 7.4 percent," Sarris said about May-to-June unemployment numbers for the 19 communities from Saugus to Ipswich that the local workforce investment board oversees.
"We have a pattern of an unemployment rate going up in June, and we theorize it is because of youth going into the labor market," Sarris said.
Cape Ann's three towns all boast June jobless rates lower than those of the North Shore figures or the state average.
Rockport, with an identified labor force of 4,108, shows 286 unemployed for a rate of 7 percent, compared to the North Shore's overall 7.4 percent and the state's 7.8 percent, while Essex has a jobless rate of 6.9 percent and Manchester a mark of 4.8 percent.
Manchester lists a work force of 2,679, with 129 of them out of work; Essex has a labor force of 1,840 with 127 unemployed, according to figures from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development's Department of Unemployment Assistance.
Gloucester figures
Gloucester's June unemployment rate was listed at 7.9 percent, higher than either the North Shore or state figures. And the city's rate is up from the 7.8 percent figure posted in May.
The city's 7.9 percent jobless rate marks an improvement over June 2010, when Gloucester's unemployment rate was listed as 9.5 percent, higher than the state's June 2010 mark of 8.9 percent.
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By Ethan Forman Staff writer A June jobs report showing a spike in North Shore unemployment since May is most likely a reflection of the hard time young people are having landing summer jobs or starting their careers, said Mary Sarris,
Mark Moran / staff photographer Renea Emerich stands in her store, the Main Street Trading Post, a Wilkes-Barre pawn shop. Increasing activity at pawn shops reflects hardship brought on by hard times.
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Kramer wrote on Facebook, “Layoffs today at The Courier-Journal were just awful. Out of 50 at the paper, half were from the newsroom, with several in features. I’m still on board, but now the ONLY arts writer on staff.”
Something similar happened in San Antonio in the winter of ’09, when the Hearst-owned San Antonio Express-News , our alternative newsweekly. Several people including a local TV correspondent asked me whether I was glad to see a staff decrease at “the competition.”
I was not.
No matter how competitive or self-important you are, if you’re an arts and culture critic, you don’t want the whole local arts beat. Or you shouldn’t want it, anyway – you can’t handle the damn thing, not with any kind of justice. You just miss too much, both as a singular viewer of a multifaceted phenomenon, and in terms of time-and-place logistics.
Also and maybe worse, your judgment becomes too weighted in absence of other write-ups. In an ideal world any artist’s work, like any Hollywood product no matter how crappy, should get a bunch of critical eyeballs on it who rate, praise, and complain. Some of these pairs of eyeballs will understand the stuff, or think they do, and others will dismiss it and others will champion it and through all these competing viewpoints, a reader over time cultivates a relationship with certain writers, and with artists, and with their city, and understands the features of artists’ work better, like the theoretical blind guy listening to the other blind guys describing the elephant.
And with the daily paper handling the informational, descriptive and local-booster aspects of San Antonio arts reporting — which is integral to getting people off their couches and into art venues – I was free to work on what I meant to be rigorous analysis and a potentially opposing view, peculiar theories and details and speculation in an undiluted voice. Art shows, particularly the large museum kind, or big traveling exhibitions, provided me opportunity to criticize institutions, curation, funding, trends, and individual works of art, without having to be particularly consensus-minded about it. Also, if there were works or events that didn’t particularly interest me, I knew the daily would probably have somebody on it. (And they do — Elda Silva, Steve Bennett and Deborah Martin at the Express News and several writers at plazadearmastx.com including Ben Judson, Justin Isenhart and Elaine Wolff all work hard and well, but we could use, like, ten more of us.
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