{"id":74954,"date":"2019-09-26T12:47:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T16:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=74954"},"modified":"2020-05-18T15:58:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T19:58:37","slug":"wright-state-economics-professor-quoted-in-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/09\/26\/wright-state-economics-professor-quoted-in-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State economics professor quoted in New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kevin Willardsen, Ph.D.<\/p><\/div>\n

Determining the value of industry versus nature can be difficult and costly, but the needle points toward Dayton\u2019s needing higher-paying jobs and production, said\u00a0Kevin Willardsen, professor of economics at Wright State University in Dayton, who has studied the effect of industry on the environment.<\/p>\n

Unemployment in Dayton is 4.3 percent, only slightly above the national average of 3.7 percent, but many of the higher-paying manufacturing jobs lost during the last recession have not returned. Dayton\u2019s population fell to 140,640 in July 2018 from 166,179 in 2000, according to the United States census.<\/p>\n

\u201cDayton is an outlier,\u201d Professor Willardsen said, in that it is one of the only major metropolitan areas that is shrinking while most have grown. \u201cAnything that can reverse the trend would be good for the area.\u201d<\/p>\n

But growth comes at a price, Mr. Knoop said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoney and jobs are a hard thing to argue against, but many times, you are possibly losing a resource that is irreplaceable,\u201d he said. \u201cIt seems to me, they could find another place around the airport property. Once the open space is gone, it is gone forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

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