Posted on Apr 25, 2022
Land rush: Rust Belt towns turning into e-commerce hubs
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CBS Sunday Morning clip about Lehigh Valley transformation from steel production to e-commerce supply chain. Good news includes growing number of jobs and relief with current economic improvement. Bad news includes increase in pollution and concerns about future economic projections.
Land rush: Rust Belt towns turning into e-commerce hubs
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LTC Eugene Chu
..."The demand for next- or even same-day delivery has dumped huge challenges on the steps of brick-and-mortar stores, but it has also created a demand at huge job-hungry distribution centers. Don Cunningham, president and chief executive of the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation, said, "When people get on their iPhone and they order every imaginable product to show up at their doorstep, it's not being brought there by magic. It takes, quite frankly, an army of people to do that."
Today, there are almost as many warehouse jobs in the region as there are manufacturing positions. That's a big milestone, Cunningham told correspondent Lee Cowan: "From a purely economic standpoint, for high school diploma or less workers, it's created something that, quite frankly, hasn't existed in this area since the days of cement mills and slate quarries and steel mills."
Nationwide, Amazon alone has added more than 500,000 jobs just since 2020, making it the country's second-largest private employer, just behind Walmart."...
..."The demand for next- or even same-day delivery has dumped huge challenges on the steps of brick-and-mortar stores, but it has also created a demand at huge job-hungry distribution centers. Don Cunningham, president and chief executive of the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation, said, "When people get on their iPhone and they order every imaginable product to show up at their doorstep, it's not being brought there by magic. It takes, quite frankly, an army of people to do that."
Today, there are almost as many warehouse jobs in the region as there are manufacturing positions. That's a big milestone, Cunningham told correspondent Lee Cowan: "From a purely economic standpoint, for high school diploma or less workers, it's created something that, quite frankly, hasn't existed in this area since the days of cement mills and slate quarries and steel mills."
Nationwide, Amazon alone has added more than 500,000 jobs just since 2020, making it the country's second-largest private employer, just behind Walmart."...
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