May 15, 2003

We'll take what we can get
Posted by deisenhart@bostonworks.com">Douglas Eisenhart at 1:44 PM -

Following Dean's blog from yesterday, today's Globe article on employment in the region also finds some good news in an otherwise bleak local picture:

. . . The education and consulting sector, driven by university enrollments that burgeon in economic hard times, posted meaningful growth, gaining 4,000 jobs, or 3.2 percent, in the quarter.

Even better:

John Bitner, chief economist at Eastern Bank, said the struggling state economy -- which has shed nearly 170,000 jobs since early 2001 -- could finally hit bottom and resume job growth by the end of the year.

So hang in there. What goes down must go up. And all signs suggest we are a lot closer to the end of this thing than the beginning.

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