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Ohio jobs outlook - "More than 560,000 new jobs are expected to be created in Ohio over the next decade and having the best luck filling them will be workers with at least some college education. Professional and business service fields such as accounting, human resources, and computer systems design will be the fastest-growing job segments. One in four new jobs, or more than 100,000 during the next seven years, will be in health-care related fields."
posted by jr to business at 5:21 P.M. EST     (3 Comments)

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Having acknowledged that at least some college education is required for the best jobs, why do you suppose the Republican controlled legislature and Republican governor continue to decrease funding for higher education?
posted by Chaz at 04:11 P.M. EST on Thu Feb 17, 2005     #

The Republicans have demonstrated that they are short-sighted and unable to see what will happen in 10-20 years by slashing funding to higher ed.

Unfortunately, the Democrats have provided little in the way of resistance.

Investing in higher education - and education in general - is the surest way to produce long-term growth (employment, demographic, and income).
posted by Guest at 07:45 P.M. EST on Fri Feb 18, 2005     #

If some university education is required for the "best jobs", Chaz, then by definition, we're talking about very few jobs, right?

If every state geared up its education system with public funds, to attract a few jobs, wouldn't we end up with legions of frustrated postgrads? As I've said before, I've worked manual labor right beside degreed engineers, so this is happening already.

Beyond all that, Republicans today are most definitely the Party of Vile Evil. The philosophy of "borrow and spend" is even more ruinous than "tax and spend" since it puts off until tomorrow the bills of today, plus added fees for the costs of credit.

THAT is what the Republicans are doing in Columbus. Time and time again, they are signing checks and credit applications that all the rest of us have to pay off. Telling them to sign more bond issues just to over-populate Ohio's campuses, is fundamentally foolish.

There just aren't enough jobs. A big part of the problem is that a lot of capital has fled Ohio. We let it go. And if we continue to let it go, we won't be able to attract it back with all the collapsed infrastructure we'll be sitting on. And if we DO somehow convince some of it to come back, we'll have no negotiating position, so we'll just be inviting masters in to treat us like slaves (even more like slaves than Toledoans are treated as currently).

If I see another bond issue like we had over a year ago with "Issue 1", I'm voting it down once again. We cannot tax ourselves into prosperity, no matter where the resulting money is likely to be spent. The government is in a spending binge and that must be curtailed for what is likely to be a very hard economic time in Ohio. Toledo's "economic development" efforts have been resounding failures overall, and all levels of government should simply stay the fock out of such affairs. The population can better see to its needs once the government tax monkey is off everyone's back (because, after all, if it's economically sensible for Jeep to not pay taxes, then the same logic applies to any Toledo worker ... right?).
posted by GuestZero at 05:48 P.M. EST on Sun Feb 20, 2005     #

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