The location is also home to the Air Force lab known as Rome Lab and Griffiss Technology Park currently has over 6,000
jobs including cyber security, aeronautical
manufacturing, research and development including
heavy MROs that employee 600 people and growing.
Baltimore was prosperous during World War II, but in the postwar period, with suburbanization and then the decline of American
heavy industry and
manufacturing, the city lost half its
jobs in these areas, the
jobs that enable those with less education to make decent lives.