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U.S. IT jobs Down 400K Since 2001

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:And if bush stays in office it will get worse by Chuck+Bucket · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't believe the poll numbers are right, the fact that Bush is even in the running makes me loose whatever pride I had in our great country.

    Also, here's a fun fact, so far this month we've had MORE deaths from terrorist attacks since 911, and the second most EVER!

    Meanwhile Bush stumps with "American and the world are safer!"

    Huh? Everyone, please VOTE!

    CB#@@$#$

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  2. Re:Started under Clinton... by Izago909 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Continued under Bush. Where does that leave us?
    A President who blames his inability to turn around an economy in 4 years on the last administration and a terrorist attack 3 years ago. Why is it that whenever I hear the administration talk, all they have is either excuses or a goal and no plan to reach it? Fuck politicans. We need a President who's an acomplished economist and sociologist, not a would-be theologist.
  3. Anyone hiring in the Richmond, VA area? by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Only slightly offtopic, things are hurting bad. I need a job two months ago. PC/network technician here (5 years experience), self-taught coder, windows and unix, C++, perl, VB. Can do nearly anything... just need a chance with a non HR droid.

  4. Yeah, but how many syllables in this damn song? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How many syllables in this stanza?

    Alouette, gentille Alouette, Alouette, je te plumerai,
    Je te plumerai les yeux, je te plumerai les yeux,
    Et les yeux, et les yeux,
    Et le bec, et le bec,
    Et la tete, et la tete, Alouette, alouette,
    Oh, --

    I have 44 total. line by line I have
    13
    14
    6
    12
    12
    1
    Is that correct? Man, I feel like a dumbass.

  5. How is this insightful? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How convenient for you to ignore the fact that after the bubble burst that job losses in the IT sector have continued unabated despite this so-called economic recovery we're supposedly in (and that Bush takes credit for).

    I shouldn't be too surprised--you ignore or try to disassociate bad things from Bush and try to connect good things to him, regardless of any hard evidence.