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San Jose Mercury NewsEven as Silicon Valley employers added 2,800 payroll jobs, the unemployment rate in Santa Clara and San Benito counties jumped last month to 12.3 percent, the California Employment Development Department reported today.
The valley's unemployment rate was 12.1 percent in February and 10.5 percent in March 2009.
Valley employers added jobs in the government, leisure and hospitality, manufacturing, and retail sectors. However, the construction sector lost 300 jobs. The total number of payroll jobs in the two counties was 845,600, down 2.9 percent from March 2009.
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