No, Mr. Hogan, Baltimore is not in decline

No, Mr. Hogan, Baltimore is not in decline

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2015/01/no-mr-hogan-baltimore-is-not-in-decline.html 

January 9, 2015 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-hogan-baltimore-letter-20150109-story.html

We welcome and support Gov.-elect Larry Hogan's view that Baltimore City should be Maryland's economic engine ("Hogan says city should drive state economy," Dec. 30). But his unfortunate use of hyperbole to assert that in Baltimore City, "There's no businesses, there's no jobs," and that state investments have produced no positive outcomes is wrong and doesn't reflect the countless Baltimoreans who work hard every day to make this still imperfect city better.

First the facts. According to the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, in the first quarter of 2014, there was an average of 324,818 jobs in Baltimore City, reported by 13,700 employers. In fact, Baltimore City has more jobs than all but two counties in Maryland. Downtown Baltimore ranks in the top 10 percent of U.S. cities for its total number of employees and has one of the country's highest employment densities.

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