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Article: Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas, Area Ends 2001 with 5,000 Fewer Jobs.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- March 9, 2002
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By Maria M. Perotin, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 9--The Metroplex's economy, which had created as many as 10,000 jobs a month in recent years, has lost jobs for the first time in a decade.
The Fort Worth-Arlington area finished 2001 with 5,000 fewer jobs than when the year began. And Dallas gave up 31,500 jobs for the year, according to revised tabulations from the Texas Workforce Commission.
That's a dramatic turnaround for a region where the addition of 700,000 jobs since 1990 has been a powerful economic engine -- triggering a population boom, sparking spending and prompting development that ...