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Utah News
| ACS call center to hire 225 workers By Mike Gorrell - The Salt Lake Tribune |
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| Affiliated Computer Services said Monday it will hire 225 people to work at its call center at 1911 N. 2200 West in Salt Lake City. | |
| Updated: 02/01/2010 06:46:58 PM MST | Read Complete Story |
| Home prices continue skid, but sales soar By Lesley Mitchell - The Salt Lake Tribune |
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| Home sales are up, but prices are still going down. | |
| Updated: 01/28/2010 08:06:56 AM MST | Read Complete Story |
| Utah employment losses continue By Mike Gorrell - The Salt Lake Tribune |
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| Utah's unemployment rate rose almost half of a percentage point in December to 6.7 percent -- the highest since it was 6.8 in March of 1987. | |
| Updated: 01/22/2010 08:13:53 AM MST | Read Complete Story |
| New police fee stings low-income apartments By Jeremiah Stettler - The Salt Lake Tribune |
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| Apartment owners, including those with rates fixed by the federal government for low-income residents, will have to pay an extra $186 per unit this year. | |
| Updated: 01/20/2010 12:03:31 AM MST | Read Complete Story |
| Utah Commercial real estate vacancy rates rose in 2009 By Jasen Lee - Deseret News |
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| It may sound like a broken record to say 2009 was a tough year in virtually every sector of the Utah real estate market, but the final year of the decade also offered some hope for the start of the next 10-year period. | |
| Published: Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 9:08 p.m. MST | Read Complete Story |
| In foreclosure filings, Utah is 5th-highest By Staff And News Services - The Salt Lake Tribune |
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| In Utah, 27,140 homeowners received a filing, the fifth-highest rate among all states. Only Nevada, Arizona, Florida and California came in higher. Rounding out the top 10 were Idaho, at No. 6, followed by Georgia, Michigan, Illinois, and Colorado. | |
| Updated: 01/13/2010 10:25:13 PM MST | Read Complete Story |
| Home builders press ahead from tough 2009 By Lesley Mitchell - The Salt Lake Tribune |
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| For home builders along the Wasatch Front, 2009 was one of the worst years ever -- but a step up from a particularly dismal 2008. | |
| Updated: 01/13/2010 12:14:12 AM MST | Read Complete Story |
| Census Bureau center to hire 1,500 By Mike Gorrell - The Salt Lake Tribune |
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| During the next eight months, roughly 1,500 Utahns will help ensure the accuracy of the official 2010 U.S. Census by answering questions phoned into a call center opening next month in Sandy. | |
| Updated: 01/13/2010 08:23:59 AM MST | Read Complete Story |
| Salt Lake County's police fees may tap churches, too By Jeremiah Stettler - The Salt Lake Tribune |
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| Instead of raising property taxes to recover millions for services in the unincorporated county, officials have introduced a police fee that would charge homes, grocery stores, auto dealerships and even churches various amounts, depending on how many law-enforcement calls they have generated historically. | |
| Updated: 01/10/2010 07:39:28 AM MST | Read Complete Story |
| Bankruptcy filings rose 56% last year in Utah By Jasen Lee - Deseret News |
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| The number of individuals and businesses filing for bankruptcy in Utah jumped 56 percent in 2009 — the fifth-biggest rise among states. | |
| Published: Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010 12:27 a.m. MST | Read Complete Story |
| Utah real estate market is unclear By Jasen Lee - Deseret News |
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| SALT LAKE CITY — If you have been involved in or observed the Utah real estate market over the past couple of years, you are keenly aware that it has seen better times. But compared to many other states across the country, the Beehive State is not faring all that badly. | |
| Published: Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 8:14 p.m. MST | Read Complete Story |
| Tough times for Utah's construction industry By Mike Gorrell - The Salt Lake Tribune |
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| New monthly figures from the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) emphasize how hard the recession has hit the construction industry in Utah -- particularly the St. George area. | |
| Updated: 01/05/2010 07:22:53 PM MST | Read Complete Story |
| Affordable housing gets a stimulus boost By Lesley Mitchell - The Salt Lake Tribune |
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| A Utah nonprofit has invested $10.5 million in federal stimulus money to buy Utah homes, apartments and land that eventually will help provide affordable housing to hundreds of the state's lowest-income families. | |
| Updated: 12/09/2009 07:35:41 PM MST | Read Complete Story |
| EBay sold on Utah, adding 457 jobs By The Associated Press - The Salt Lake Tribune |
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| DRAPER » Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. will add more than 450 jobs to its global operations center in Draper. | |
| Updated: 12/03/2009 06:38:23 AM MST | Read Complete Story |
| Utah employment projected to pick up By Mike Gorrell - The Salt Lake Tribune |
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| By 2015, Utah will be one of the top 10 states in bouncing back from the downturn in terms of new-job creation, an economic forecasting company said Tuesday. | |
| Updated: 12/02/2009 07:50:18 AM MST | Read Complete Story |