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Retail companies delay hiring for seasonal jobs
Photo credit: AP | Retailers are holding off hiring for the holiday shopping season, but there are still jobs to be found. (December 2006)
The economic downturn has battered the U.S. job market, most notably the retail sector, which hires thousands of temporary holiday workers when consumer confidence and spending are riding high.
But as the ranks of the unemployed grew, seasonal job growth slowed dramatically in 2008 to just 384,300 hires, nearly 50 percent fewer than in 2007.
And while experts say the outlook for holiday...
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