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. The Visual Market: The Local Job Pool This month's return of The Visual Market offers a somewhat different slant than usual. ... Instead of focusing on the national market indices -- the Dow, the NASDAQ, and the S&P -- we're using this space to focus a little closer to home ... on the local job market. With a few companion pieces appearing elsewhere this month {see below}, as well as a slightly longer wait to see if the recent market gains can hold, we thought this shift in attention might be worthwhile. ... Investment can certainly mean the usual routes of stocks, bonds, the money market, etc.. But, as important as those may be to long-term goals and retirement, there is another kind of investment that is both more immediate and, in some ways, at least, more critical: investment in local communities. If you haven't already, we invite you to look at some of the companion pieces to this month's Visual Market, including our Small Business Resources feature on using stats to help business planning, as well as a look at the growth in non-farm proprietorships ... and this month's Work, on Changes in Patterns of the Local Job Market. Finally, and partly in connection with our other series of companion pieces on Memorial Day and The Civil War, in On the Farm, we look at The Decline in Regional Farming in Addison & Chittenden counties with a few charts showing changes from 1860 up to the present. ... Here, however, our task is simple: To present a few charts that show Changes in the Local Job Pool ... visual aids to the companion pieces we mentioned already. We think they're pretty self-explanatory, but urge you to read the companion pieces in any case. ... Key to Sectors: {top to bottom}
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