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jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 09:50 PM Sep 2012

Spokane #1 on Forbes List, from Manpower, Inc Survey!


No. 1 worst metro area for jobs this fall: Spokane, Wash.

% of employers that plan to increase hiring: 13
% of employers that plan to decrease hiring: 13

Net employment outlook: 0%

Here.

Can you imagine how bad it would be if we didn't have our current elected officials?
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Spokane #1 on Forbes List, from Manpower, Inc Survey! (Original Post) jtuck004 Sep 2012 OP
Hooray!! Twinguard Sep 2012 #1
Funny you should call it that. We moved jtuck004 Sep 2012 #2

Twinguard

(531 posts)
1. Hooray!!
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 11:47 PM
Sep 2012

I live in Spokane.

We're no. 1!!
We're no. 1!!



There's a reason I call it Spoklahoma.

My wife works at city hall (I won't say what position, but she works directly with the mayor and the city council), and when she gets home at night and vents about her day it's always about the rampant corruption. It's not just one player either... it's the mayor, the city council, the police chief (both old and incoming)... you name it. I'm not in the least bit surprised we are in the lead for shitty employment outlook. The heavily Republican "non-partisan" mayor doesn't give a damn about anyone but the big dollar donors that funded his campaign. I don't really want to say more because I don't want to violate any confidentiality agreements that my wife may have made, but trust me that this city has more than its fair share of problems and that they pretty much all stem from our elected officials.

Thank goodness Washington is a blue state and we have the big population center of the Seattle area to keep the Spokane area from jumping into the deep end with the north Idaho crazies.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
2. Funny you should call it that. We moved
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 10:27 PM
Sep 2012

here from Oklahoma about 8 years ago. I grew up there, but thought it a bit backwards, 'till I got the perspective of living here in the Valley.

Not accomplished by any of their current selfish crop of elected oafs, but the vo-tech school, access to big universities, crossroads of the interstates, lots of cultural opportunities make it look positively progressive from here

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