Democrat Tim Ryan’s District Since He Took Office: 25K Manufacturing Jobs Lost, Up to 400% Spike in Drug DeathsJohn Binder 13 Oct 2022
Rep. Tim Ryan’s (D-OH) district has fallen into economic and social despair since he first took office in 2003, jobs reports, population data, and death figures reveal.
Ryan, running against Republican J.D. Vance for Ohio’s open United States Senate seat, has long touted his record of supporting his district’s working and middle class communities. But a collection of data from the region, shared by Vance’s campaign, paints a different picture.
For example, since Ryan took office, the Mahoning Valley area of northeast Ohio has lost nearly 25,000 manufacturing jobs as a result of U.S. free trade policies. Since 2001, two years before Ryan took office, the area’s manufacturing workforce has been cut in half.
At the same time, Ryan’s district has seen skyrocketing levels of drug overdose deaths — most now linked to fentanyl — as decades-long job outsourcing propelled Ohio into the spotlight as the face of the nation’s opioid crisis.
From 2005 to 2020, drug overdose deaths in Mahoning County increased by more than 351 percent. In Trumbull County drug overdose deaths have jumped nearly 335 percent, and in Portage County, drug-related deaths have gone up by about 400 percent.
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