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Article: Indiana's job growth: only slightly below the U.S. average, and above most of our Midwest neighbors.(INDIANA INDICATORS)
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- Indiana Business Magazine
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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THE DEPARTMENT OF Workforce Development just made available revisions to the monthly employment and wage data for Indiana and its major cities for the last two years. Revisions put the state's job growth at a more healthy 1.3 percent over the 12-month period.
That's not exactly booming job growth, but compared to the 1.6 percent in national payrolls experienced over the same period, it's not as bad as was originally portrayed. And for most of Indiana major cities, the news is even better. Of the 14 metropolitan areas around the state tracked by DWD, only one--Kokomo--had fewer jobs in January 2006 than in the same month one year earlier.
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