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Primary job growth led by manufacturing sector (access required)

by Rebecca Tonn

Published: September 10,2010

Time posted: 7:57 am

Tags: manufacturing

A few dozen primary employers in the Pikes Peak region are slowly but surely shoring up their ranks. Despite a grim-sounding unemployment rate of 8.9 percent, El Paso County actually added 4,700 jobs between January and July. Not only that, but more than two-thirds of them were goods-producing jobs, which benefit the economy far more than service ...





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