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Well reported with good sourcing. This covers a spread of job sectors where hiring has slowed since the recession to give a picture of the "faces of jobless recovery" that's not too deep but broad.
The few companies in hiring mode are flooded with applications: General Electric received 10,000 online applications for 90 $13-an-hour positions assembling washing machines at a plant in Louisville.
Davis Construction of Rockville has cut back to 400 employees from 500 over the past year as business has slowed. The bulk of its work these days is government-funded buildings, such as a project at Aberdeen Proving Ground that’s part of the military base’s consolidation effort. “It used to be 90 percent in the other direction with privately funded projects, but now it seems like everything we’re doing — or looking to bid on — has government money or a government need behind it,” said Dennis Cotter, senior executive vice president at Davis. He said he has no plans to do major hiring.
