Facts About Job Loss
- If wine is sold in grocery stores, over 1,000 small businesses will be forced to close which translates into a loss of over 4,000 jobs.
http://www.caphill.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=15 - Small business retailers who would be affected by the Governor’s proposal have indicated that 65%-80% of their overall sales are devoted to wine – putting their store’s livelihood and employees’ jobs at great risk.
- New York is projected to shed more jobs than any other metro area in the United States this year.
http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/01/19/2009-01-19_new_york_to_lead_us_in_job_losses.html - New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has predicted that job losses throughout the state will reach the hundreds-of-thousands over the next two years.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/comptroller_expect_massive_job.html - Joblessness in New York State has increased by almost 400,000 since early 2008.
http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/SOWNY2009.html - The New York metropolitan area is expected to lose 181,000 jobs in 2009.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/19/new-york-to-lead-us-in-jo_n_158995.html - Over 850,000 New Yorkers are unemployed. The state’s official unemployment rate is 8.6 percent as of July 2009.
http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/SOWNY2009.html - A report by the Fiscal Policy Institute showed that a third of the City’s jobless receive unemployment benefits.
http://www.workforce.com/section/00/article/26/02/88.php
