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NY Times Dayton article about Rducation & Jobs
NY Times Dayton article about Rducation & Jobs
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tlturbo
324 posts
May 31, 2012
3:01 PM
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DOOH - meant to type - EDUCATION in the subject.
Interesting article in the NY Times about Dayton, its jobs and how education affects it all.
Be sure to read both pages and especialy the blog comments at the end. Some good points made.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/us/as-college-graduates-cluster-some-cities-are-left-behind.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120531
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Last Edited by on May 31, 2012 3:07 PM
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PaulH
101 posts
Jun 01, 2012
1:26 AM
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Mind opening article. I can remember the first big lay-offs. NCR, Delco, Moraine, Frigedare, and others. We knew this was temporary and the jobs would come back. I sometimes wonder what would have hapoened if we knew the truth. I had some friends that but new cars and houses on lay-off pay. It was something like 90 % pay for two years for the UAW members. Me? I decided to re-enlist and left pretty much forever, except for a year at WPAFB and some visits home. The biggestshock I got was when I went back after a 20 year absence. I got off the freeway and drove down Main and then First down to Keowee and out on Valley. I could smell it in the air. Dayton had become an old city that had shrunk, rather than grew. I drove up past the base and thru Fairborn and then out to N. Dixie and headed south to go to Cincinnati along the Dayton-Cincy road. The whole area reeked of neglect except for a few bright spots. Woody's was closed and Moraine was practically a ghost town. If i had more time, I am sure I would have found some more bright spots. I loved Dayton and the hustle and bustle of the old downtown and some of the other areas. With all the heavy industry and manufacturing jobs gone there has to be something to replace them. I know there is something there, but I wasn't seeing it. A city's entertainment areas shouldn't consist of strip clubs either. Sorry for such a dark and narrow point of view about my Dayton. But that's the way I felt at the time. Maybe its just all the years of living in the Mountain West here in Utah. I have the Great Salt Lake on one side and on tge oth,I can watch the sun come up over the Wasatch Mountains in the morning. I have become Westernized and used to the open areas and relatively clean air. But, Dayton is still in my heart and I wuld love to see it come back in a big way.
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