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increase in the work force in February for a total of 4,085, 3,907 employed and 178 unemployed. The VEC attributed the increased unemployment to the winter weather.
Robert Hale-Cooper, job service manager in the Culpeper VEC office said, “I have no idea,” when he was asked about why the numbers increased so much.
William Mezger, statistician for VEC in Richmond, said that numbers from the 1990 census were included in their statistics for the first time with the January report. Before that the statistics were based on the 1980 census, he said. *>
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