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Employment up more than 5.0 percent over the year in New Hanover County, NC, and Adams County, CO 


February 27, 2020
From September 2018 to September 2019, employment increased in 283 of the 355 largest U.S. counties. New Hanover County, North Carolina (part of the Wilmington metropolitan area), had the largest over-the-year increase in employment with a gain of 5.8 percent. In Adams County, Colorado (part of the Denver area), employment increased 5.3 percent over the year ended in September 2019. Full Text »
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Occupational employment and wage differences across cohorts of establishments  
Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, David S. Piccone Jr, Elizabeth Cross
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The 2020 census and CES employment

This Beyond the Numbers article describes how census workers affect CES employment estimates. Typically, a mass movement of workers onto—and then off of—the Census Bureau payroll occurs around the turn of every decade.
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