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It also said that a delay "could irreparably harm competition in a vital and rapidly evolving sector of the national economy".
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In recent years, the U.S. government has assigned a private-sector organization, the National Bureau of Economic Research, to determine when the economy is contracting.
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The report said that towns and cities with less dynamic private sectors, such as Hull, Doncaster and Newport, would find it more challenging to offset the weak national economy and the ongoing shrinkage of the public sector.
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Once a business services backwater, the share of jobs in that sector in the local economy has rapidly climbed towards the national average.
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The city's unemployment rate (6.4%) is lower than the national average, and the plethora of public sector jobs insulate it against the weak private economy.
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The only exception is the third-ranked San Francisco- Oakland-Fremont metropolitan statistical area, which has logged 21% growth in this sector since 2001, while expanding the proportion of such jobs in the local economy to nearly twice the national average.
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