Cortland Counts 2009: Findings:
Economy, Employment and Welfare
Highlights
- Non-farm jobs in Cortland County remained at 18,800 from November 2007 to November 2008 (Table EW-1).
- Like the nation, Cortland County continues to experience a decline in manufacturing and a slight increase in service industry jobs (Tables EW-1 and EW-3).
- A 2006 living wage study concluded that a single person would have to earn $10.35/hour or $20,450 annually to be minimally self-sufficient, with the employee paying for their own health insurance (Table EW-2).
- Poverty is more prevalent in the City of Cortland compared to the county and NYS (Table EW-6).
- Cortland unemployment has consistently been higher (and often significantly higher) than that for NYS as a whole (Table EW-7).
- The number of children on public assistance in the county is slightly higher than in upstate NY (Table EW-9).
- More children receive food stamps in Cortland County than upstate NY and NYS (EW-10).
- The number of monthly cases for food stamps and Medicaid grew fairly consistently throughout 2008 (Table EW-11).
- The number of meals served by the food pantries increased by 63,724 between 2000 and 2008 (Table EW-12).
- There are one hundred and twenty five dairy farms that milk 11,990 cows, producing annual sales revenue of $36,200,000 (Table EW-14).
- Significant unmet needs for transportation remain in the community (Table EW-20, EW-21).
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