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• Massachusetts adds 4,000 jobs in October.

  - 2004-11-20

  By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 20--Massachusetts gained nearly 4,000 payroll jobs last month while the jobless rate held steady after hitting a three-year low in September, the state reported yesterday. Although hardly spectacular,...

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• Numbers of poor, uninsured rise.

  - 2004-08-27

  By Kimberly Blanton, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 27--The US poverty rate rose, incomes stagnated, and more Americans went without health insurance last year, even though economic growth surged, according to Census Bureau data released yesterday. ...

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• Massachusetts Jobless Rate Drops to 5.1 Percent.

  - 2004-04-17

  By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 17--Massachusetts employers in March added payroll jobs for the first time in nearly a year, helping to push the jobless rate to its lowest level in nearly two years and providing...

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• As Jobs Disappear in Massachusetts, Laid-Off Workers Create New Ones.

  - 2004-03-23

  By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 23--The recession, economists say, ended over two years ago. But since the so-called recovery began, Massachusetts has lost more than 79,000 jobs. Despite the seemingly endless stream of...

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• Economists Say 'Offshoring' Overblown as a Problem.

  - 2004-03-13

  By Stephen J. Glain, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 13--WASHINGTON -- Only in an election year could something statistically insignificant assume seismic proportions. The phenomenon known as "offshoring" the outsourcing abroad of white-collar work represents a...

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• Weak Labor Market, Job Concerns Pressure Consumer Confidence Levels.

  - 2003-12-31

  By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 31--Consumer confidence slipped in December, weighed down by a weak labor market and increased concerns that jobs remain "hard to get." The New York-based Conference Board reported yesterday that...

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• Jobless Level Matches Lowest Point in Three Years.

  - 2003-12-25

  By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 25--The number of workers filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits fell again last week, matching the lowest level in nearly three years and underscoring signs of a slow but steady ...

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• Economy Surges in Third Quarter.

  - 2003-12-24

  By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 24--The US economy grew at its fastest pace in nearly 20 years in the third quarter, the Commerce Department said yesterday, setting the stage for broad national recovery that some economists...

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• War, Scandal, Job Losses -- 2003 Had All of It, and More.

  - 2003-12-21

  By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 21--If 2003 didn't hurt so much, you would almost have to laugh. This was a year when an association of very smart economists not only chose the sixth consecutive...

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• Massachusetts Jobless Rate Drops to 5.6 Percent in October.

  - 2003-11-22

  By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 22--The Massachusetts unemployment rate dipped in October for the second consecutive month while job growth remained essentially flat -- signs that the long-suffering job market is at least stabilizing, economists...

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