Stuck in neutral: Pennsylvania's uneven economic recovery | PennLive.com
"...More than three years after the start of the Great Recession, Pennsylvania is still struggling to emerge from the plunge employment took in 2009.
In fact, the state's annual unemployment rate remains virtually unchanged at 7.9 percent, with an estimated 513,000 residents unemployed.
When annual unemployment data are taken in comparison, many counties — including those in the midstate — actually had a higher percentage of their workforces unemployed in 2012 than in 2009..."
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