The ongoing decline in jobs in the Quad-City manufacturing sector is having a ripple effect on the region's unemployment picture, a labor analyst said Thursday.
Q-c Jobless Rate Rises In February
Jennifer DeWitt jdewitt@qctimes.com, Quad-City Times
Thu, 03/31/2016 - 1:10pm
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