
The United States has hovered at or close to historic unemployment rates for all of 2018 as it did during the previous year. That does not mean the work force was stable.
2018 also brought a number of retail bankruptcies and retailers that closed stores. That caused a lot of job loss that was made up in other areas. In this gallery we're going to look at 17 companies that had plans to hire thousands of workers. We're also going to examine 11 companies that have made major cuts or gone out of business entirely leaving workers without jobs.
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