Business First reports that construction, service, transportation, and leisure and hospitality jobs have helped increase private-sector job growth by 2 percent—”the largest growth rate in Upstate New York, according to the state Department of Labor.”
That’s an increase of 9,100 jobs year-over year compared to Rochester, whose private-sector added 3,400 new jobs—an increase of 0.8 percent.
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