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Health Care Sector Added 44,000 Jobs In September | Private sector health care employment added 44,000 jobs in September 2011, a new analysis of Labor statistics from Altarum Institute concludes, representing “the largest monthly increase since September 2002.” “Health care was a significant component of the overall increase of 103,000 jobs in September, and the health care share of total employment is at an all time high of 10.8 percent,” the report found. Since the start of the recession, “health care employment has increased by 8.2 percent while non-health employment has fallen by 6.2 percent”:
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