{"id":550,"date":"2009-03-04T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/04\/recession-hits-north-country-harder-than-rest-of-nys\/"},"modified":"2009-03-04T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T14:40:00","slug":"recession-hits-north-country-harder-than-rest-of-nys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/04\/recession-hits-north-country-harder-than-rest-of-nys\/","title":{"rendered":"Recession hits North Country harder than rest of NYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/times-map-732537.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 75px;height: 75px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/times-map-732533.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>As this recession built steam, a lot of economic development leaders around the North Country chimed in with the opinion that we might just be insulated from its worst effects.<\/p>\n<p>The theory goes that we avoid the highs (housing bubbles, big factory openings, etc.) but we also avoid the lows.<\/p>\n<p>Buoying our economy:  our proximity the US-Canada border, high rates of government employment, and a lot of small mom-and-pop businesses.<\/p>\n<p>But new research by the New York Times goes a long way toward dispelling that optimism.<\/p>\n<p>The Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2009\/03\/03\/us\/20090303_LEONHARDT.html?hp\">has produced a county-by-county map<\/a> that clearly shows the North Country region leading the way in job losses for New York state.<\/p>\n<p>Zoom in and you&#8217;ll see that Lewis County&#8217;s unemployment shot up to 9% over the last year &#8211; a one-third increase.<\/p>\n<p>Essex County&#8217;s jobless rate rose 2.6% and Warren county saw a 2.8% hike. <\/p>\n<p>Hamilton County, as always, is hardest hit:  10% of the county&#8217;s workers are now jobless, twice the rate of Albany County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this recession built steam, a lot of economic development leaders around the North Country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}