We believe that the direct loss of jobs related to travel and tourism has been close to 3 million.

Surprisingly, the main driver of the upside in the quarter was Ford's automotive operations, which posted a pretax loss of $12 million, much better than our forecast for a loss of $910 million. Within automotive, North America accounted for the majority of the upside.

It’s a sad day not only for Americans but worldwide, we‘ve lost Steve Jobs a true genius/visionary! Steve looked many steps ahead & provided us w/ what we now know as our "technological norm"; he’ll be greatly missed & always respected. Steve was 1 person who definitively proved the words of H.K. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” He fortunately for us all had both, more than most, thank you for your time, determination & above all your humbleness

On the last day of bargaining we offered a 20% pay cut and loss of jobs of between 1,100 and 1,300. The company said no thank you. The enemy is the company.

The loss of manufacturing jobs after 2000 was just huge, and those jobs haven't come back.

We try to make sure people don't get pigeonholed into jobs like supporting a legacy system,