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With not enough growth to occupy the growing population, the Economic Institute of Erie, recently concluded in a study of the area's workforce that a "brain drain" effect; that is, of educated people from the area leaving to find higher paying jobs elsewhere.

This does open the area up to an increasing number of job openings in the Professional and Technical fields where degree level jobs abound for the immigrant job seeker. On the down side of this seeming boom in middle and upper class jobs, they are increasingly being offered through "Temp" agencies which provide little true job security even for upper level trained jobs. In a United States Department of Labor Report it can be seen that between October of last year and March of this, there has been a drop of over two thousand people in the job force with an increase in unemployment rising an entire percent, from six to seven percent in just over five months.

While manufacturing rates and other professional and business services have maintained a steady pace, the educational and health services have experienced a sharp drop of nearly a thousand jobs over the winter. The only noticable increase in the workforce shows in the leisure and hospitality industry.

There has been a six percent surge in low paying service positions being created in the city where there are currently almost two hundred restaurants for a city of two hundred, eighty thousand people and not including the seasonal workers who maintain the State Park just off-shore from the city. If you come to Erie, Pennsylvania seeking your fortune be prepared to settle for what terms of employment you can negotiate. Lowered expectations seem to be ruling the job market right now.