ALBANY – The Dutchess-Putnam Metropolitan Division suffered the largest job losses in the Hudson Valley region in December, the State Labor Department reported Thursday.
Jobs in the two-county area fell by 10 percent compared to December 2019.
That is contrasted with Ulster County, which lost 5.2 percent of its jobs in December 2020.
The Orange-Rockland-Westchester Metro Area saw jobs fall by 9.4 percent in the last month of 2020 while they fell by 9.2 percent in Greene County.
Sullivan County suffered an 8.2 percent job loss, while they fell by 6.0 percent in Columbia County.
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