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Show Upswing Continues Employment Explodes9 2.000 additional jobs. Construction Con-struction lists nearly 3.000 more jobs than a year ago while the services sector grew even more, by 3.700. More than one-fourth of that came from increases in the hotel and lodging industry, benefitting from another strong ski season, sea-son, improving economy and opening of at least one more major hotel. MINING, ON the other hand, continues to suffer, with 500 fewer jobs listed than the previous year. During the third quarter, from September-December, the labor market expanded by 12.500. "one of the best quar ters of employment growth in the state's history." Job Service Ser-vice officials indicate, surpassing surpas-sing all the job estimates. EVERY MAJOR imluMiv. except state government, showed more employment than was previosuly reported, with final construction jobs "markedly" higher--up by 3.900 over estimate. "Substantially" "Sub-stantially" more employment was shown in durable manufacturing, manu-facturing, wholesale trade. Iran sport at ion. communications communica-tions and public utilities, along with finance, insurance and real estate. Other estimates were closer to final figures, there-port notes. By TOM BUSSELBERG SALT LAKE CITY -"Explosive" employment growth occured around the state during dur-ing the last half of 1983. underscoring under-scoring a continued upswing in the ecoaomv. THAT REPORT comes from the Utah Department of Employment Security in their monthly Labor Market Report, Re-port, indicating healthy changes in unemployment levels in both Salt Lake and Davis counties. In fact. Salt Lake declined by nearly three percent between be-tween January of last year and currently, swinging from 8. 1 to 5.3 percent last month. Nearly as dramatic was the upturn in Davis, going from 7.5 to 5.6 percent. STATEWIDE, the rate dropped from 8.6 to 6.1 percent, per-cent, reflecting favorable employment em-ployment growth everywhere hut the southeastern district, heavily dependent on the currently-depressed mining industry. in-dustry. Their rate of more than one in eight unemployed last month doubles those out of work a year ago. the report indicates. in-dicates. The state's 6. 1 figure, meaning mean-ing about one in every 16 is. unemployed, tipped the scales as the lowest amount in two years meaning 17.000 fewer Utahns were unemployed than a year ago. NOTING A "tremendous surge in employment growth has propelled the precipitous drop in unemployment since May," the report notes the percentage of those age 16 and above working jumped from 57.6 percent last May to exactly exact-ly three in five last month. Employment grew by nearly 30.000 positions in that period vs. a population growth of over 16-year-olds of 9.000. MOST INDUSTRIES, reath-er reath-er than "hitting rock bottom" as they "struggled through threeyears of very hard economic econo-mic times." as was last year's situations, have reflected "hefty year-over job increases." in-creases." Manufacturing tops the increases, in-creases, growing by 7.000 jobs in the past year, with transportation transpor-tation equipment leading that segment's upturn, showing |