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March 2010

Payroll employment in 2009: job losses continue

Megan M. Barker, Adam A. Hadi

Employment declined by 4.7 million in 2009, the largest calendar-year job loss in the history of the series (since 1939); although payrolls declined sharply at the beginning of the year, job losses moderated thereafter.

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