JOBLOSSES
Bangor Daily News
Guanlei Ren
Boston University Washington News Service
December 08, 2008
WASHINGTON—For Michael Lynch, a junior at the University of Southern Maine, it’s a tough time to be looking for a job. But it could be worse if he lived in some state other than Maine.
As bad as the recession-driven employment picture is in Maine, it’s slightly better than in the nation as a whole—though that may not be much of a consolation for someone seeking a job.
Lynch is a full-time musical theater student. Starting this summer, when he transferred to the university’s Portland campus, he had been looking for part-time jobs. Until a month ago, he didn’t get one.
“It’s pretty hard to get jobs in Maine,” Lynch said. Because of the bad economy, several of his friends who are also students couldn’t find part-time jobs as well. He said that a lot of people in Maine spend two hours each way commuting to Boston to work.
Like Lynch, people find that it is getting harder to find either part-time or full-time jobs not only in Maine but also the whole country.
