Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Trader Joe's Creates New Jobs

I found this article in the Gazette Times. It talks about how the Trader Joe's that is opening in the spring is bringing jobs to the Corvallis area. This will help relieve Corvallis' unemployment which has grown to over 7%.

The article interviews many people that have been out of work for over a year. The article also interviewed potential employees that have sent out over 40 applications to Corvallis, Albany, and Lebanon.

I found this article to be uplifting but also a little premature. I don't think that one business opening will have that large of an effect on unemployment. The way I see it a grocery store isn't going to hire a whole lot of employees.

1 comment:

  1. Interesting. I didn't know Corvallis's unemployment rate is 7%. Oregon is still at 11%.

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