{"id":1205,"date":"2021-03-09T15:43:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:44:53","slug":"jfi-executive-director-quoted-in-article-about-the-closing-of-lockheed-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2021\/03\/09\/jfi-executive-director-quoted-in-article-about-the-closing-of-lockheed-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"JFI Executive Director Quoted in Article About the Closing of Lockheed Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/richard-clinch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1206 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/richard-clinch-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Clich\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>On Mar. 8, 2021, Richard Clinch, executive director of the Jacob France Institute at The University of Baltimore was quoted in a <em>Baltimore Sun<\/em> article titled <u>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/maryland\/baltimore-county\/bs-md-co-lockheed-martin-era-20210308-4zb3tgky5zfepd6o3kbzfidcoi-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018A major, major loss\u2019: Closing of Lockheed Martin plant is end of an era for eastern Baltimore County<\/a>,&#8221;<\/u> written by Taylor Deville and Alison Knezevich.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Clinch&#8217;s quote<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From 2010 to 2019, the number of total private-sector jobs in Baltimore County grew by 14%, while the number manufacturing jobs declined by 6%, according to Richard Clinch, executive director of the University of Baltimore\u2019s Jacob France Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere aren\u2019t a lot of jobs for these people to find comparable work\u201d Clinch said. \u201cMaryland is really no longer a manufacturing state, despite Baltimore\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the county\u2019s loss hasn\u2019t happened in isolation, given the national decline in manufacturing, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Clinch said that \u201cmanufacturing in Maryland has many struggles,\u201d including the high cost of real estate and labor. However, as the state lost traditional manufacturing, it did well in more high-tech manufacturing, such as medical devices.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Mar. 8, 2021, Richard Clinch, executive director of the Jacob France Institute at The University of Baltimore was quoted in a Baltimore Sun article titled &#8220;\u2018A major, major loss\u2019: Closing of Lockheed Martin plant is end of an era for eastern Baltimore County,&#8221; written by Taylor Deville and Alison Knezevich. Dr. Clinch&#8217;s quote &#8220;From<span class=\"excerpt-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2021\/03\/09\/jfi-executive-director-quoted-in-article-about-the-closing-of-lockheed-martin\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}