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March 2004

The U.S. labor market in 2003: signs of improvement by year’s end

Rachel M. Krantz-Kent, Marisa Di Natale, Thomas J. Krolik

Job losses eased in 2003, and the unemployment rate edged down in the second half of the year.

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