Tri-City Wa Jobs Increase
July 25th, 2007
Tri City Herald reports growth in Tri Cities Washington agricultural and non-farm jobs:
Nina Pyle ran a spot on a local radio station earlier this week to find job hunters. Pyle, office manager at Atkinson Staffing in Pasco, needs to fill about 250 positions at a food processing plant in Hermiston. “There’s a lot of work out there,” she said, adding it’s often difficult to find people looking for work.
That’s not surprising because the Tri-City economy is doing well, the state’s regional economist reported Tuesday. The Tri-Cities added 2,500 new nonfarm jobs in the last 12 months, said Dean Schau of the state Department Employment Security. Of those, 652 were at Hanford’s vitrification plant, a massive facility that will treat high-level radioactive waste…[more] A public service announcement from the Pasco Wa real estate team.
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