Marion jobless rate back below 8 percent

"Marion County's unemployment rate for August dipped to 7.9 percent, an improvement from 8.3 percent in July and 10.1 percent in August last year.

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increase in employment to large hiring events in August for Burlington Coat Factory, Custom Window Systems and Caregiver Services, among others.

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"You want FedEx to come here and bring a bunch of jobs, but if all you dealt with was the big-ticket economic development projects, as important as they are, and you didn't rely on the existing-business recovery and growth, you wouldn't have the type of economy we have"

By Richard Anguiano
Business editor