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February 2001

The job market in 2000: slowing down as the year ended

Jennifer L. Martel, David Langdon

As the unemployment rate edged down to a 31-year low, the job market entered an unprecedented 10th year of expansion, though job growth slowed a bit in the second half of the year

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