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tt iuic i cvipicutn ui puunv. ttaojo* tance historically include what is termed the “working poor,” according to Ms. Lineberry, her department is seeing more mainstream workers facing financial hardship.
“People in the city and county departments have begun to see people with long, steady work histories, people you would never think would be unemployed,” she said. Throughout the state, the jobless rate edged down slightly, falling from 6.9 percent in May to 6.6 percent in June.
The nation as a whole fared worse, with the jobless rate climbing from 7.2 percent to 7.8 percent.
An additional blow to the nation’s economy came with a report by the Commerce Department on first-time unemployment claims.
Last week 469,000 people were added to the nation’s unemployment rolls, up from 400,000 newly-unemployed the week before.
Further darkening the employment outlook, the U.S. Postal Service announced that it will decrease it’s management work force by 30,000 over the next few months as a cost-cutting move.
The nation’s mail service is trying to fend off a projected $2 billion operating deficit next year, a possible hike in the first-class stamp rate and competition from overnight express carriers.
Postmaster Judy Simpson of the Bealeton Post Office said that she did not expect the cutbacks to affect neighborhood post offices.
“I don’t see (cutbacks) so much in our local offices,” Ms. Simpson said. “I’m already shorthanded. There aren’t very many of us to start with.”
"In the small post offices, we’re working postmasters — we do the same job as our craft employees,” she said.
The Department of Economic Development has released its second quarter report, “Economic Development: A Statistical Summary,” indicating that the number of jobs being reported has increased this quarter by 100 percent over the same period in 1991.
This represents the creation of 3,768 new jobs for Virginians as a re
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