U.S. IT jobs Down 400K Since 2001

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 14, 2004 @03:51PM from the where-have-all-the-flowers-gone dept.

Cryofan writes "A research study shows that American information technology industry 'lost 403,300 jobs between March 2001, when the recession began, and April 2004.' Over half of those jobs - 206,300 - were lost after the recession was declared over in November 2001. In all, the job market for high-tech workers shrank by 18.8 percent, to 1,743,500, between March 2001 and April 2004. And the bloodletting continues -- as reported here on Slashdot earlier this year, the number of employed Software Engineers fell by 15% from April to July of 2004 (from 856,000 to 725,000)."

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Re:Sources please.. by Izago909 · 2004-09-14 16:44 · Score: 5, Informative

Sorry for the broken links:

http://www.poe-news.com/stories.php?poeurlid=32085 http://archive.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/02 /23/mcjobs/ http://www.shortnews.com/shownews.cfm?id=37255 http://www.canuckflack.com/archives/000084.html http://www.bradcarson.com/pressreleases/archives/0 00416.php

Are we to equate a worker on an assembly line to the punk messsing up my order at McDonalds? Saying fast food workers are part of the manufacturing sector is a clever way to say that America is gaining manufacturing jobs. Too bad it's like Enron filing debits to collectors as assets.