This is not the title to a bad breakup ballad. What it is, is a song of Baltimore City?s decline. Each year the future dims as more and more taxpaying businesses move out; more and more move in exempt from property taxes.
The latest Maryland Nonprofit Employment Update from Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies confirms this trend, as do city Finance Department numbers. According to the study, released last week, nonprofit jobs account for almost one-third of the total private jobs in the city. That percentage keeps creeping higher. Since 2002, nonprofits have added new jobs while the private sector has shed them.
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