January figures show 18th straight month of job losses in Maryland

March 12th, 2010

By Jamie Smith Hopkins The Baltimore Sun

March 11, 2010

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.