State: LI sees fewer jobs in December
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Long Island's economy had 9,900 fewer jobs in December than it did a year before, the State Labor Department said Thursday.
It was the eighth consecutive month that the department's year-over-year gauge of employment here showed a declining labor market. Some local economists contend the continued lower employment reflects an economy that has yet to emerge from the recession. Nationally the...
