Day: July 24, 2012

State Roundup, July 24, 2012

Venture capital investment in the state has fallen; but the Maryland lottery hits record sales; former DLLR counsel Frank Pugh remembered; city Mayor Rawlings-Blake in pro-Dream Act commercial; and PSC sets four hearings on BGE storm response.

Md. job losses cause partisan tussle

The conservative advocacy group Change Maryland charged Monday that “Maryland has lost more jobs so far this year than any other state in the nation according to the U.S. Department of Labor,” losing “just over 10,000 jobs since the beginning of this year.”
Gov. Martin O’Malley’s press office questioned the figures, and said the organization was cherry-picking numbers to fit in with its partisan Republican agenda. Both sides in the dispute were using figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but they chose a different starting point. Using the end of December as a starting point, Maryland had only lost 1,200 jobs this year.

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