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Through the recession and recovery, Maryland's economy has been bolstered by other industries as manufacturing has waned, a trend that still gives many economic watchers cause for optimism.
Health care continued to expand during the recession, adding 7,900 jobs in 2010 alone, enough to make it account for more than 13 percent of the state's jobs.
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A study under way on industry opportunities in the region has singled out advanced manufacturing, health care, agriculture/food processing, professional and business services, and the emerging sectors of biotechnology and renewable energy, Hanoski said.
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WHITE PLAINS, NY, Dec. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- In a concerted effort to move Westchester's economy in a positive direction, The Business Council of Westchester today announced the formation of a new task force that will focus on the major issues critical to retaining existing businesses and attracting new ones to the county.
Called the Westchester Coalition for Business Development, the new group will be comprised of businesses that have a stake in keeping Westchester's economy strong and growing. Influential business leaders from the hot sectors of business growth in the market will be represented including biotech, information technology, health care, professional services, finance and the green business sector.
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We've been involved in a lot of community activities," said [Augustine Kole-James]. "We have programs for diabetes and obesity in young people, and what we're trying to do is get the word out, and to that affect to prove that yes, people may think that Detroit is going nowhere, but we've made a difference.
"I would encourage Black folks, that we've got to turn things around and take care of ourselves. They're not doing anything to us now, we're doing it to ourselves," said Kole-James. "You have to give your life to the work."
"They have this phobia about the health system, and they end up seeing the doctor with one leg in, one leg Kole-James said. "Get the preventive care. That's the only way. They're still going to get less care than if they were White, but somebody has to take care ...
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FEBRUARY BY THE NUMBERS * Professional and business services: up 47,000. * Health care up 34,300. * Construction: up 33,000. * Manufacturing: up 33,000. * Transportation and warehousing: up 22,000. * Leisure and hospitality: up 21,000. * Temporary help services: up 15,500. * Financial services: up 3,000. * Retail: down 8,100. * Government: down 30,000.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy turned in its best performance in February since the start of the Great Recession in December 2007, as evidence piles up that the recovery is strengthening, deepening and gaining solid footing.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The unemployment rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent in March, capping the strongest two months of hiring since before the recession began.
The economy added 216,000 jobs last month, the Department of Labor said today. Factories, retailers, the education and health care sectors and professional and financial services all expanded payrolls. Those job gains offset layoffs by local governments.
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Tom Richmond, a petroleum engineer and administrator of the Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation, said the boom in Richland County, of which Sidney is the county seat, accounts for 99 percent of all the oil activity in Montana, and all of it is basically a "technology play." In 2006, when the oil boom in Montana was as its peak, he said, employment figures showed that health care, government, construction, retail, professional and technical services, manufacturing, financial services and transportation all ranked ahead of mining, which includes the oil and gas industry.