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Many local open jobs will not support a family
Most available jobs are in food, service industries
Allison Lewis
Issue date: 1/24/07 Section: News
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According to an article that recently appeared in the Dayton Daily News, there are 21,000 jobs available in Dayton, but a third of them won't support a family.
The same article mentions a study done by Wright State and by the University of Dayton in which the employers of various counties were surveyed on job vacancy.
The results showed that the jobs with the highest amount vacancies were truck drivers, registered nurses and jobs found in the service industry. The study also found that jobs in accounting, management and engineering were available and hard to fill.
It's difficult to understand how a third of Dayton's jobs do not provide enough wages to support a family when jobs like those mentioned above in the fields of accounting and engineering are available.
Thomas Traynor, Associate Chair of the Economics Department, said, "The problem is that many people have lost jobs at Delphi, NCR, General Motors and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and have to get jobs in the service industry, which doesn't pay as well."
Students did not seem too concerned with the job situation in Dayton. In fact, many don't even seem sure about staying in Dayton after school.
Kelly Leach, a sophomore majoring in psychology, said, "I don't know if I am going to stay here in Dayton or go to Berkley for grad school."
Erin Kelly, a freshman majoring in modern languages, said, "The only place here in Dayton that I could ever see myself working is the Air Force Base and I may go to NYU for grad school."
Grad school could be very beneficial for students because Traynor also said that employment opportunities are heavily linked to education level.
Traynor mentioned that a generation ago people with lower education levels could get jobs at many places that they cannot work now, so things seem different, but Dayton actually has more opportunities than it did a generation ago.
He said that in a few years the economy will probably level off due to the fact that it is losing jobs in the manufacturing industry but gaining job in many other industries.
The same article mentions a study done by Wright State and by the University of Dayton in which the employers of various counties were surveyed on job vacancy.
The results showed that the jobs with the highest amount vacancies were truck drivers, registered nurses and jobs found in the service industry. The study also found that jobs in accounting, management and engineering were available and hard to fill.
It's difficult to understand how a third of Dayton's jobs do not provide enough wages to support a family when jobs like those mentioned above in the fields of accounting and engineering are available.
Thomas Traynor, Associate Chair of the Economics Department, said, "The problem is that many people have lost jobs at Delphi, NCR, General Motors and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and have to get jobs in the service industry, which doesn't pay as well."
Students did not seem too concerned with the job situation in Dayton. In fact, many don't even seem sure about staying in Dayton after school.
Kelly Leach, a sophomore majoring in psychology, said, "I don't know if I am going to stay here in Dayton or go to Berkley for grad school."
Erin Kelly, a freshman majoring in modern languages, said, "The only place here in Dayton that I could ever see myself working is the Air Force Base and I may go to NYU for grad school."
Grad school could be very beneficial for students because Traynor also said that employment opportunities are heavily linked to education level.
Traynor mentioned that a generation ago people with lower education levels could get jobs at many places that they cannot work now, so things seem different, but Dayton actually has more opportunities than it did a generation ago.
He said that in a few years the economy will probably level off due to the fact that it is losing jobs in the manufacturing industry but gaining job in many other industries.
