Manufacturing towns hit harder by unemployment woes as retail sales decline

AP via Boston Globe ^ | September 9, 2001 | Dave Carpenter

[sarcasm]

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. -- America's economic slump is taking an increasing toll in towns where industry is king.

Shops are newly shuttered and paint is peeling in this small blue-collar city between Milwaukee and Chicago. Help-wanted ads draw hundreds of responses and neighborhood stores keep busy cashing unemployment checks.

[txrangerette]

What these poor souls need is a Democrat tax increase...

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

THIS coming from the town who builds the neverending TUNNEL

remind me sometime to tell you of the boston tunnel that changes at every sneeze

[libertarian_usa]

"remind me sometime to tell you of the boston tunnel that changes at every sneeze"

This article is from the AP and written in Chicago, the Globe merely carried it. The poster could have gotten it from AP wires if he/she wanted to.

[gunshy]

The moral of this story is just get rid of all the manufacturing plants in this country. Bingo no more layoffs, no more unemployment. Welfare for all.

[kcvl]

US-IL-Waukegan-Delivery/Installer to $25k+ - Commercial Laundry Equipment

There are more than 1,000 jobs listed on monster.com in the North Chicago. They may not pay $25 an hour but there are jobs out there.

[brat]

"Manufacturing towns hit harder by unemployment woes as retail sales decline."......so what else is new? Been going on since NAFTA! Manufacturing towns have been in a Recession for almost 9 years, if not longer! People who earn minimum wage don't have money for anything but the barest necessities-and even then, things like doctor's visits, teeth, tires, etc. have to await a miracle! I remember when all of America was prosperous. What a wonderful time that was-everyone was proud to be an American!