Since the turn of the decade, Baltimore has experienced year after year of declining payrolls. As table 3 reveals, since 1989, nearly 66,000 jobs have been lost. To be sure, as Josef Nathanson, research director for the Baltimore Metropolitan Council, reports, Hispanics and Asians are becoming a significant presence in the Baltimore area. Anne Arundel, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties all showed increases of 30 percent or more in those minority populations from 1990-1994. 32 Note, however, that this rapid population growth is occurring in the metropolitan counties, not in Baltimore itself.
New immigrants tend to leapfrog to the suburbs.
In terms of human capital, the center city is again the loser. All said, from 1990-1994, Baltimore City has lost anywhere from 33,000 to 52,000 residents, depending upon the source. Either way, federal demographers' projections dovetail with the impressions of declining city neighborhoods. This trend is evidenced by a multitude of 'For Sale' signs and migration of such neighborhood anchors as houses of worship and retail businesses to the counties. None of this bodes well for Baltimore and its long-term financial stability.