The editorial in the Tuesday, March 2,
www.citizen.com, titled "Act now to bolster critical industrial base" was about the local loss of better paying manufactoring jobs in the area.
Here's the first two paragraph's...
"Laconia rode the broad shoulders of manufactoring for decades. Not long ago, one in three people here worked in a manufactoring job.
But no more. Laconia's manufactoring base has taken hit after hit."
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The editorial goes on to report the following bad news.
Laconia: 12 years ago, it had 3319 manufactoring jobs and now it has 2183.
Franklin: 10 years ago, it had 1777 manufactoring jobs and now it has 959.
Ashland: 10 years ago, it had 470 manufactoring jobs and now it has 135.
My uninformed general knowledge tells me that these jobs paid in the range of 16-22 dollars/hour.
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Here's looking for your personal story on getting down sized to a lower paying job, or totally losing your job, and how you manage to survive on less money? If you want to share your story of losing your local manufactoring job and how it has impacted you.....people want to hear about it.
Belknap County continues through January 2010 to have the second highest rate of jobless-unemployment in New Hampshire, following second behind Coos County, way up north.