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Why is El Paso's job market so sluggish?
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Framing the future: tomorrow's border economy
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Composite index: a new measure of El Paso's economy
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Unconventional natural gas drives New Mexico rig count
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Mexico regulatory change redefines maquiladora
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The economy of Southwest New Mexico
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Low-wage occupations remain a hallmark of El Paso economy
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El Paso economy sluggish in 2007: U.S. slowdown outweighs Fort Bliss expansion
This has been a disappointing year for El Paso in terms of job growth. Through October, the city added only 1,200 new wage and salary jobs, according to seasonally adjusted data, an annualized growth rate of less than 1 percent. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at a historically low level of 5.4 percent in October, but progress in lowering the rate further stalled at midyear.
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New Mexico recovery still struggles in 2012
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Is the recession over in El Paso?
In December 2007, the U.S. economy entered a mild recession, a downturn that would ultimately trigger the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and a fall into one of the longest and deepest recessions of the past 60 years. Growth returned to the U.S. in mid-2009 but remains too slow to make inroads into stubbornly high unemployment. Virtually no geographic area of the country was left untouched by the U.S. downturn, including El Paso, although the local economy performed much better than other border cities, such as McAllen, Brownsville and Laredo. Government-related spending, ...