Atlanta top metro area--for job losses (Dallas: lawyers, professionals, stats)

[YelloCherry99]

Atlanta top metro area -- for job losses *| ajc.com

Metro Atlanta shed 30,800 jobs since August 2010. Kansas City -- 12,800 positions erased -- was the closest competitor in job-losses. Nearly all of Atlanta’s peer metro areas added at least some jobs amid the slow economic recovery.


The figures add to a growing sense that Atlanta has experienced a Lost Decade. The Great Recession and its aftermath have obliterated the mid-decade’s huge job and wealth gains that put Atlanta atop the New South economic pedestal. The Atlanta region, for example, notched 2,237,100 jobs last month -- almost exactly the same amount as in early 2002.


And only 2,200 white collar professionals -- accountants, engineers, lawyers -- were hired over the last year, a 0.6 percent gain. Dallas (3.7 percent uptick), Detroit (3.0 percent) and the U.S. overall (3.0 percent) did much better in those categories.


In fact, 238 of 372 metropolitan areas added jobs the last 12 months. Major competitors, like Dallas (plus 50,900 jobs) and Houston (65,000), left Atlanta in the dust.

[RandyWatson13]

GA/ATLANTA was booming b/c of housing. Housing crashed. So jobs here crashed. End of discussion

[kayrob]

You beat Tony Georgia to it.

[cityfilms]

maybe now that all these housebuilders are gone we can start bringing in intelligent people?

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by cityfilms

maybe now that all these housebuilders are gone we can start bringing in intelligent people?

Perhaps. Who will hire them?

[jetter2]

I heard on the radio it bled the least out of the rest of big cities...hmmm

[Box]

Well this is depressing news.

[BackInATL2011]

We will come back, no worries. Atlanta has always came back after a recession.

[YelloCherry99]

Originally Posted by BackInATL2011

We will come back, no worries. Atlanta has always came back after a recession.

Keep in mind that in every other recession, Atlanta has led the recovery. Now, it isn't even participating.

[ChubbyDecker]

The housing market crashed over 3 years ago and these stats are looking at just the last 12 months, therefore it doesn't appear that these job losses can be blamed on the lousy housing market. This doesn't look good folks!