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Jobs, Unemployment and the New Hampshire Economy
By Laura Knoy on Friday, February 6, 2009.
We begin a new monthly series exploring how different parts of the Granite State economy are weathering the recession, and we begin with a look at employment. Lately many companies have made deep cuts in their workforce, and while our unemployment rate is below the national average, the pain of job loss still stings.
Guests
- Dennis Delay, economist and Deputy Director of the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies
- Russ Thibeault, president of Applied Economic Research in Laconia
We'll also hear from
- Richard Brothers, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Employment Security
- Matt Burge, director of the Hypertherm Technical Training Institute in Hanover
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All the jobs that have been listed by your guests that are engaging people for employment are for the well educated, but what about those that have a limited education and or limited means to obtain more education due to tight finances or are older adults.
Listening to the very end of the show today-I wondered if the following issues were discussed:
1. The number of self employed in NH who are no longer working-where are those numbers taken into consideration? They cannot collect unemployment...
2. The "under-employed"-for example, those whose hours have been cut back...20 hours vs 40hours..waitresses who have been cut back on their hours and days scheduled to work-instead of working 5 days a week, they have been cut back to 2-3; and the restarant is closing earlier...it affects the dishwashers, cooks, etc.; salaries that have been decreased (Monadnock Hospital)
3. Business owners (like us)who have either cut back on their salaries or are not taking one at all in order to keep things moving!
If we are looking at numbers, let's look at a "whole" picture...