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Many states added jobs in January, but Maryland - a latecomer to the dour recession party that has undergone a shorter period of job loss - wasn’t among them.
Maryland employers cut 2,500 jobs in January, the 18th straight month of losses in this two-year-old recession, the Labor Department estimated Wednesday. The state’s unemployment rate rose from 7.4 percent in December to 7.5 percent in January, a new high-water mark not seen since the spring of 1983.