Many jobs expected to be lost

    February 9, 2009

    By: Tom MacDonald

    Official Pennsylvania job numbers for January will be released later this month, but the national figures show there could be 30-thousand newly unemployed in the state. WHYY’s Tom MacDonald reports it might take a long time for new jobs to come.

    By: Tom MacDonald
    tmacdonald@whyy.org

    Official Pennsylvania job numbers for January will be released later this month, but the national figures show there could be 30-thousand newly unemployed in the state. WHYY’s Tom MacDonald reports it might take a long time for new jobs to come. [audio: reports20090209jobloss.mp3]

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