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Article: Good news on job front ; First monthly increase in jobs in year, even as unemployment rate edges up
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- June 19, 2009
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NORWELL - Last Thursday, as the national unemployment rate
hovered at a 25-year high, restaurateur Ed Morris opened a new
location of The Fours in Norwell with a staff of about 50 new hires.
In Massachusetts, unemployment crept up again last month. But
business successes like Morris' helped the state achieve something
it hadn't since last May: an increase in the total number of jobs.
The state office of Labor and Workforce Development said in an
announcement on Thursday that the state added 4,900 jobs in May, the
first monthly increase in a year and the largest since January 2008.
Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economist at the University of
Massachusetts-Boston, said the new-job figures may be ...