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Law Practice

Apr. 9, 2013

Legal jobs tick upward in U.S. after declining earlier this year

The nationwide jobless rate dipped to 7.6 percent from 7.7 percent in March, according to data released Friday from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the drop isn't because people found work. They just stopped looking.


By Ameera Butt


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The nationwide jobless rate dipped to 7.6 percent from 7.7 percent in March, according to data released Friday from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the drop isn't because people found work - they just stopped looking.


Employers added only 88,000 jobs last month, mostly in professional and business services and in health care, according to the monthly report. That gain was down from the 268...

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