Key ways the US job market has changed since 2007

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Six and half years later, nearly everything about the job market is different.

When the Great Recession hit in December 2007, 138.4 million people were working at U.S. businesses, nonprofits and government agencies. By February 2010, that figure had cratered to 129.7 million. Fifty-one months later, the economy is back to 138.5 million jobs, the government said Friday.

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