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08.24.2009 10:24 am

More job losses, slow recovery seen for St. Louis

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis stands to lose about 10,000 more jobs before it begins to recover, and will need until 2014 to regain all the jobs lost during this recession, according to a new forecast from IHS Global Insight.

The firm says St.…

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08.06.2009 5:57 pm

Another look at stimulus: Maybe St. Louis is shortchanged, after all

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Tim Fischesser, executive director of the St. Louis County Municipal League, belatedly wants to take issue with the assertion that St. Louis is getting its fair share of stimulus dollars. In a July 9 post, I cited an IHS Global…

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07.28.2009 2:31 pm

Free fall is over, but many job losses still lie ahead

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri still stands to lose more than 20,000 jobs before its economy turns around, and Illinois will still shed more than 40,000 jobs, according to a new forecast from IHS Global Insight. The firm also predicts that Missouri won’t regain…

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07.09.2009 11:47 pm

St. Louis isn’t shortchanged on stimulus, study says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As the New York Times reported Thursday morning, many of the nation’s biggest cities are not getting their fair share of highway spending from the federal stimulus bill. Overall, according to a study that IHS Global Insight did for the U.S.…

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04.29.2009 1:25 pm

Economically speaking, swine flu has hit at the worst possible time

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Swine flu fears caused a bit of a selloff on Wall Street this week but, considering the potential for economic devastation, it’s surprising that the reaction wasn’t more severe. Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, says the flu outbreak…

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04.22.2009 2:03 pm

Jobs lost quickly will come back slowly

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis has lost nearly 40,000 jobs in just over a year. According to this map from IHS Global Insight, it will take up to five years to gain them back.

The legend is a bit hard to read, but the yellow…

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