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Those looking for Seattle nurse jobs may soon have better luck finding a position, as the city’s education and health services industry was among one of the four to add workers last month when compared to 2009.

During August, the Seattle area’s unemployment rate decreased to 8.4 percent after remaining at 8.6 percent for two months in a row. The latest decrease keeps the city’s rate below the national average of 9.6 percent.

The Seattle-Bellevue-Everett area had a total non-farm employment of 1,386,000 people during August, which is down from 1,390,000 workers during July and the same as last year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Hundreds of City of Seattle jobs previously slated to be cut will be saved … at least for now.

After announcing that 200 Seattle city workers would lose their jobs, Mayor Mike McGinn recently said he would postpone those layoffs in an effort to boost employee morale. According to an article by The Seattle Times, those cuts were expected to affect senior managers, executives and strategic advisers.

Aside from wanting to maintain employee morale, McGinn said he has now learned the anticipated city budget deficit will most likely be worse than he originally thought, meaning more than 200 jobs may need to be cut.

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