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November 1992

Health services: the real jobs machine

David R. Hiles

In term of employment, the best industry performer over the last decade was health services, adding nearly 3 million jobs and accounting for 1 of every 6 new jobs in the economy since 1980. This article provides a brief history of the market for health services and focuses on the industry's employment trends since 1980.

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