Pennsylvania Top 50 Employers Q1 2010

PA Work Stats ^ | 9/24/10 | Center for Workforce Analysis

[Kay Ludlow]

This is PA today - we work for government at some level and our spouses work in the service sector, and we buy food, eat out and shop. No real manufacturers of any kind in the Top 50. With Federal and State Agencies listed separately, 25 of the Top 50 are associated with government in some way (like being part of the State education system). I suppose the chances are thin that the newly Republican State House, State Senate and State Governor will do anything to clean out DCNR and DEP, the agencies that have been instrumental in forcing nearly all maufacturing out of the state. They talk the talk about sustainability, but I just can't see how sustainable it is for a state to have this kind of employment picture over the long run. Our jobs have all been eliminated or exported...

[linn37]

I’m part of # 37 , Med Centers getting bigger by the day and so are its parking garages .

[P.O.E.]

Mack truck left Allentown in 2009.

Mack Bulldog Leaves Allentown
Iconic Mack bulldog statue at company’s Allentown headquarters is headed to Greensboro, N.C

http://www.fox43.com/news/wpmt-amnews-mackbulldog-allentown-8-19-2009,0,2221428.story

[Kay Ludlow]

Didn't we have a State slogan at some point that was “you've got a friend in Pennsylvania”? That must’ve only been meant for eco-whackos. Clearly it hasn't been true for private business. The dang Western PA Conservancy (and Theresa Heinz Kerry's TIDES) are doing everything they can to drive out business. They want to “rewild” much of central PA - tearing out our dams, closing roads, harrassing businesses, promoting eco-tourism (which will NEVER bring in enough dollars to replace the lost manufacturing).