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Regional Unemployment Rate Declines

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published May 20, 2014 at 7:02 AM EDT

Columbus 2020 reports the region's unemployment rate fell nearly a full-percentage point this winter, to four-point-nine-percent. The economic development agency says more than 18-hundred jobs were created during the first quarter of 2014.

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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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