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April 2010

Industry shifts over the decade put Philadelphia on a new road to job growth

Gerald Perrins, Diane Nilsen

Expansion of the education and health services and professional and business services supersectors from 1998 to 2008 allowed Philadelphia and its environs to reduce the area's dependence on perennial jobs leader trade, transportation, and utilities.

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