Magic City Marketplace: Birmingham Job Market

| February 23, 2015 

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Birmingham’s unemployment rate is at its lowest point since the recession and about 5,000 jobs were added last year. That’s good news. But the shiny headlines are tempered by the fact that Birmingham job growth is slower than other southeastern cities. We talk about that in this week’s Magic City Marketplace.Photo by Tax Credits

 

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