Comforting Map Indicates That Philly Is Not As Screwed, Maybe, As Some Other Places
Temple U’s Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project — which studies job and wage change in the areas in and around Philly — just released a new policy brief, loaded with info about how Philly has fared during the recession. And the news is good-ish: In the deepest yearlong period of the recession (the year between the second quarter of 2008 and the second quarter of 2009), the Philadelphia metropolitan region lost 80,027 jobs — 3.4 percent of its total. Which is not awful. Geek out on all of the crunched data, culled from PA Department of Labor and Industry and the NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development stats, here.
