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Home / News Articles / Utah Priorities Project: Jobs and the Economy

Utah Priorities Project: Jobs and the Economy

October 12, 2012 (KUER)

At the bottom of the recession in 2009, Utah’s economy was losing jobs at the rate of six percent a year. A year later, the number of jobs was growing again, but slowly. Today, Utah is adding jobs at close to three percent annually and the state’s unemployment rate has dropped below six percent for the first time since 2008.

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