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There has been a lot of postering about all the new job opportunities in the Branson area. Anyone familiar with Branson knows about all the building and expansion the past few years.
Frankly, I don't see minimum wage retail sales and waitperson positions as anything to jump and down about, something that would attract many Wharton grads.
I googled for the facts and found the BLS Branson workforce stats . . . size of workforce, number employeed, number unemployed . . . to see how the sad state of our economy had affected employment here.
What I found was amazing . . . the size of the workforce and highest employment levels were in 1998, the most ever working being in July, 1998!!! Since then employment has dropped, roller-coastered, and is just now returning to the 1998 level.
That is bumfuzzling since much of what is here now was not here then. Or, OTOH, much of what was here then must not be here now, but what?
That info is not linkable, but you can see it by selecting Missouri/Micropolitan areas/Branson:
Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
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In another thread on that forum we are talking about all of the abandoned, stagnant projects just sitting there ugly-izing, like Indian Ridge. That is a super-ugly gouge with tacky faux-Tudor condos.
If you were to believe what is being said about it, supposedly the developer was meeting his obligations but the bank financing it went belly up (showing how the bad affects the good in our present mess). He is unable to refinance or to pay off all he owes himself, so the FDIC now has the project.
The County Commission has given the developer until March 2 to come up with financing, or they are implementing the performance bonds and taking it over themselves (which I don't understand how they could when the FDIC has it).
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Sorta like SW FL, where in some areas developers have walked away from dozens/hundreds of unfinished houses.
Frankly, I don't see minimum wage retail sales and waitperson positions as anything to jump and down about, something that would attract many Wharton grads.
I googled for the facts and found the BLS Branson workforce stats . . . size of workforce, number employeed, number unemployed . . . to see how the sad state of our economy had affected employment here.
What I found was amazing . . . the size of the workforce and highest employment levels were in 1998, the most ever working being in July, 1998!!! Since then employment has dropped, roller-coastered, and is just now returning to the 1998 level.
That is bumfuzzling since much of what is here now was not here then. Or, OTOH, much of what was here then must not be here now, but what?
That info is not linkable, but you can see it by selecting Missouri/Micropolitan areas/Branson:
Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
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In another thread on that forum we are talking about all of the abandoned, stagnant projects just sitting there ugly-izing, like Indian Ridge. That is a super-ugly gouge with tacky faux-Tudor condos.
If you were to believe what is being said about it, supposedly the developer was meeting his obligations but the bank financing it went belly up (showing how the bad affects the good in our present mess). He is unable to refinance or to pay off all he owes himself, so the FDIC now has the project.
The County Commission has given the developer until March 2 to come up with financing, or they are implementing the performance bonds and taking it over themselves (which I don't understand how they could when the FDIC has it).
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Sorta like SW FL, where in some areas developers have walked away from dozens/hundreds of unfinished houses.
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