The Census Bureau reported 43,000 people leaving SD County between 2004 and 2005. With the natural birth rate included, population may be growing. But the exodus of the working adult is a new trend. This could be why you have the positive figure in your data.
I’m researching the employment data, and hope to have answers next week. I am also bothered that we get totals, and not breakdowns. The UCLA Anderson Forecast said we have 1.5% increase in Professional and Business Services, and this sector will keep growing. But which jobs? Why do they never say?
Most job growth is in low wage occupations of restaurant, retails, tourism. High wage job growth is in real estate: realtors, loan officers, contractors.
We need more job growth in engineering, biotech, ship building, manufacturing, movie making, inventing, what else? I’ve not read any headlines of job growth in new areas of a while. I used to read lots of biotech headlines and the promise of new jobs in this area. What happened?
