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MetLife exec predicts heavy local hiring (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: March 7,2013

Many and perhaps most of the 2,600 MetLife insurance company jobs headed to North Carolina -- roughly half of them to Charlotte -- will be local hires, a top executive with the insurance giant said late Thursday afternoon.


Charlotte construction employment down (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: September 30,2011

In more grim news for Charlotte’s construction industry, construction, mining and logging employment fell 4 percent in August from the same month a year ago, according to a report this week from the Associated General Contractors of America. That meant the loss of 1,500 jobs in the three sectors, which had 36,600 jobs in August, [...]