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Article: FLYNN CITES INCREASE IN JOBS HELD BY CITY RESIDENTS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 31, 1987
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For the first time since 1950 there has been an increase in
the percentage of newly created jobs held by Boston residents,
Mayor Flynn announced yesterday.
Of 36,000 private jobs created in Boston in the last three
years, 40 percent are held by city residents, a 10 percent increase
since 1980, Flynn told a group of developers, business and
community leaders at a Parkman House breakfast yesterday.
"Historically, there has been a downside for the many Boston
neighborhoods -- many families and individuals -- who have been
left behind," Flynn said. "When you examine job trends over the
three decades leading up to 1984 a troubling picture emerges."
But Flynn said the number of jobs held ...