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Madison County last year led the state with new jobs, with 48 new and expanding companies totaling 4,602 new jobs. The total investment in these new jobs was almost $238 million. The largest job announcement last year was Verizon Wireless' new $44M Alabama headquarters and call center, which will have 1300 jobs when completed this year.

Jefferson County was second with 59 companies and 2,203 jobs, followed by Mobile and Baldwin counties.

The Huntsville region gained a total of 6,489 jobs.

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Madison County last year led the state with new jobs, with 48 new and expanding companies totaling 4,602 new jobs. The total investment in these new jobs was almost $238 million. The largest job announcement last year was Verizon Wireless' new $44M Alabama headquarters and call center, which will have 1300 jobs when completed this year.

Jefferson County was second with 59 companies and 2,203 jobs, followed by Mobile and Baldwin counties.

The Huntsville region gained a total of 6,489 jobs.

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Will they be able to attract enough people to fill these jobs? Especially young professionals it will be a tough task I hear less than 20% of the DC people will probably locate. They have turned to Atlanta.

Alabama's space city wants you to relocate there

By MICHAEL E. KANELL

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 02/25/08

Huntsville is hanging out the "Help Wanted" sign

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It's official Mobile is the new Aerospace capital of the state

The selection of a Mobile site for a multibillion-dollar Air Force contract gave Alabama’s port city its second major industrial victory in less than a year.

The Air Force announced Friday it had picked Northrop Grumman and its Paris-based partner, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., to build 179 refueling tankers at a site at Mobile, creating an estimated 2,000 jobs and putting the city on the aeronautics industry’s world map.

The contract is worth $30 billion to $40 billion over 10 to 15 years and could be even more lucrative — it is the first of three deals to replace the Air Force’s entire fleet of nearly 600 tankers for a total program value that could top $100 billion. The Northrop contract will bring about 5,000 jobs to Alabama, Republican Senator Richard Shelby says.

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I read were huntsville imports more foreign workers than any other city in the country. A large number of them work at Cinram. Wouldn't it be cheaper to hire people from the Black Belt where unemployement is so high? Is there some special loophole that makes it cheaper to bring somebody all the way from Nepal than from South Alabama?

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I read were huntsville imports more foreign workers than any other city in the country. A large number of them work at Cinram. Wouldn't it be cheaper to hire people from the Black Belt where unemployement is so high? Is there some special loophole that makes it cheaper to bring somebody all the way from Nepal than from South Alabama?
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the 30,000 plus aerospace/NASA/defense workers in HSV will probably disagree. It's a great win for Mobile and the state, yes some work will be done in Huntsville, EADS has an office here as well.. Building airplanes yes, but Huntsville is building rockets as well as airplane, helicopter parts.
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Unfortunately, people from poorer countries, like Nepal, have lower standards and usually wouldn't ask for raises. So, in the long run, it is cheaper. That is sad. We should be trying to improve the lives of our own citizens before IMPORTING other countries' citizens.

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