High-Tech Jobs Dwindle by 12 Percent

[JeebusH]

sorry if its a dupe, but I didn't see it

SAN FRANCISCO - About 12 percent of the nation's high-tech jobs have evaporated during the past two years, but the meltdown appears to be in its final stages, according to an industry report to be released Wednesday.

After wiping out 540,000 jobs in 2002, high-tech employers are on pace to lay off another 234,000 workers this year, based on figures compiled by the AeA, a trade group formerly known as the American Electronics Association.

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California, long a high-tech magnet, accounted for 123,000 job losses in 2002, or 22 percent of the national total, the AeA said. The study didn't provide a state-by-state breakdown on the 2003 job cuts.


As hard hit as it was, California ended 2002 with 994,700 high-tech jobs — more than twice as many as Texas, the nation's second largest high-tech hub with 478,900 employees.


Wyoming was the nation's most sparsely populated high-tech state, with 4,357 employees in the industry. Wyoming added 453 high-tech workers in 2002, joining Montana as the only states where the industry's payroll increased. Montana gained 68 high-tech workers in 2002.

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[izzie]

1. That 87B should have been used to re-train our work force.

That would have really helped our country.

[ex_jew]

3. Re-train for what position ?

Interrogators ?

[Maine-i-acs]

2. Texas and California -

Losing high-tech jobs. So why does Texas vote Red all the time? Ironically this may help California stay Democratic in the Electoral College. But it would be nice to steal Shrub's home state away in '04.

Why did Wyoming add high-paying jobs? They're all maintaining Uncle Cheney's "secret shadow government" servers.