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  • Apple Supports 514,000 Jobs In the USA

    Forget about the jobs at Foxconn in China, there’s plenty of people to abuse right here in the United States. Just kidding. Today, Apple released its tally on how many jobs that they created or are supporting in the United States. It’s actually quite impressive! Lets take a look at what they have.

    Here’s the facts right from their website:

    “A study by Analysis Group found that Apple has directly or indirectly created 304,000 U.S. jobs.* These jobs — spread across all 50 states — include thousands of jobs in numerous industries, from the people who create components for our products to the people who build the planes and trucks that carry them to our customers. For example, this figure also includes workers in Texas who manufacture processors for iOS products, Corning employees in Kentucky and New York who create the majority of the glass for iPhone, and FedEx and UPS employees. Together with the 210,000 iOS jobs generated by the app economy, these 304,000 jobs make a total of 514,000 U.S. jobs created or supported by Apple.”

    In the next section I’ll give you the highlights of the break down by sector or what Apple call, “The numbers at a glance”:

    U.S. Jobs Supported by Apple

    304,000 current U.S. jobs supported by Apple:
    * 47,000 jobs at Apple
    * 257,000 jobs at other companies, in fields that include:
    -the development and manufacturing of components, materials, and equipment
    -professional, scientific, and technical services
    -consumer sales
    -transportation
    -business sales
    -healthcare

    The App Economy:

    * 210,000 iOS app economy jobs in the U.S.
    * 248,000 registered iOS developers in the U.S.
    * 5000+ iOS developer jobs available now on job search aggregator Indeed.com
    * $4 billion paid to Apple developers from App Store sales

    Jobs at Apple:

    * 70,000 employees worldwide
    * 47,000 in the U.S., two-thirds of worldwide headcount
    * 7800 U.S. jobs created in 2011
    * 19,500 U.S. jobs added since 2008
    * 7000 construction jobs projected to build Apple’s new Cupertino campus
    * 50 states with full-time Apple employees

    Apple Retail Stores:

    * 27,350 U.S. retail employees
    * 246 U.S. stores in 44 states
    * 100+ locally hired employees per store on average
    * 4000 retail employees in the Greater New York area
    * 3500 U.S. retail employees who have worked at Apple stores for more than five years
    * 20,000 construction-related jobs created to build Apple stores in the U.S. since 2001

    U.S.-Based Customer Support:

    * 7700 U.S.-based AppleCare Advisors
    * 21 U.S. call centers in 15 states
    * 2000 home-based AppleCare Advisors
    * 600 advisors working for Apple while earning their college degrees

    So there it is, Apple supports 514,000 jobs in the USA. You’ll also be happy to know that there is a link you can click on to find currently available jobs at Apple. Get ready to work! Will it be retail or corporate?

  • Americans Tired Of Filling Out Unemployment Apps

    The United State Governments Labor Department continues to bombard us with propaganda about how our economy is getting better. Their latest report specifies that unemployment aid applications have dropped by 15,000 this week. This means only 358,000 application were filed, the lowest since 2008. That’s exciting!, you mean 15,000 people finally realized they were not going to get any help and gave up?

    I guess I shouldn’t be so pessimistic though, perhaps Walmart broke down and decided to open another register. Now the wait will only be ten minutes at the checkout and Larry will be bringing home over $21,000 this year after four years of college! It’s okay Uncle Sam, we understand you had to vote yourselves a raise while still doing a horrible job of making good decisions for your people.

    According to experts it is a good sign when applications stay consistently below 375,000. In fact, the economy added 243,000 jobs in January. This number is dwarfed though by the reported 13 million Americans that still don’t have jobs. Actually, the government only reports people as unemployed if they report that they are still actively looking for jobs. So you can bet that the number is much higher. Or maybe some people just neglected to renew their unemployment forms because they’re too busy trying to earn money elsewhere.

    I wonder also, how many people in this country are considered to be underemployed? I see a lot of qualified people working in mindless high-turnover positions.What are the proper stats on that at the Labor Department? So to clarify the main point, using the four-week adjusted average, for accuracy, the number of unemployment aid applications fell to 366,250 this week. Why even report this? Are they trying to make us feel better?