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• Jobless rate down nationwide

  February 3, 2011 in Business on Page A8 WASHINGTON – The unemployment rate fell or stayed the same in December in two-thirds of the nation’s largest metro areas, fresh evidence that employers are slowly adding jobs. The Labor … 2

• Jobs saved in Shared-Work Program

  January 7, 2011 in Business on Page A8 Washington’s Shared-Work Program kept 32,000 workers on the job in 2010, a record and up by 10,000 from 2009, the Employment Security Department said Thursday. The department estimated the program …

• Idaho job data has bright spot

  November 23, 2010 in Business on Page A8 Employment in most North Idaho counties fell last month, with Boundary County the notable exception. The Idaho Department of Labor on Friday released a county-by-county breakdown of employment statistics, having …

• Shrinking rate of joblessness tied to schools

  October 20, 2010 in Business on Page A10 The unemployment rate in Spokane County fell to 8.2 percent in September as educators headed back to classrooms. Doug Tweedy, regional labor economist for the Washington Employment Security Department, said …

• Obama gets voters’ message: It’s jobs, jobs, jobs

  January 21, 2010 in Business, Nation/World Jobs, jobs, jobs. If there’s any path out of the mess President Barack Obama found himself in on the first day of his second year in office, more aggressive promotion …

• Jobless rate tops 10% for first time since ’83

  November 6, 2009 in Business The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 — and is likely to go higher. 5

• Idaho unemployment highest in 25 years

  July 2, 2009 in Business, Idaho Seasonally adjusted unemployment in Idaho rose half a percentage point in June, to 8.3 percent. It’s the highest jobless rate since October 1983, the state Department of Labor said today.