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This July, construction employment in Northern Virginia was down 8,900 from last year’s level, off 13.5 percent.
Private services employment was only 0.5 percent above July, 1989. The end of high growth in this sector, containing business services which had been the job growth leader, in itself would hold the Northern Virginia job growth to a crawl, said Mr. Pearson.
Coupled with this was a slowdown in retail trade jobs in Northern
95.8%