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Five of the nine economic indicators reviewed by the bureau showed not only statewide gains for the quarter, but increases over March 1987. “In payroll jobs, especially, we have a continuing boom that resembles a stampede,” Mr. Pearson said. “Not even the October stock market crash slowed it or caused it to waver.”
The availability of employment figures generally lags one month behind other economic indicators, and for February jobs increased 4.7 percent in Virginia.
With Virginia’s economic growth
93.7%