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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Region's Joblessness Ticks Upward Again from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"The region's job market moved another tick in the wrong direction last month, with unemployment for the Pittsburgh area growing to 7.4 percent in July, up one-tenth from June and continuing a slow but steady deterioration. But Mark Price, an economist with the nonpartisan Keystone Research Center in Harrisburg, cautioned against making too much of the increase in joblessness, noting that the small sampling size limits the significance of even multi-month variations."

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