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York County Tops the Nation in Job Growth

Charlotte Business Journal
By: Jenna Martin
March 7, 2017 

Annual job growth for York County dwarfed the national average last fall, according to federal labor data released on Tuesday.

Employment rose 6% in the S.C. county located just southwest of Charlotte in September 2016 from the previous year. That compares to an overall 1.7% growth rate in the U.S, according to an employment and wage report put out on a quarterly basis by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. York County had the highest percentage increase of the country's 344 largest counties.

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