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A car streams past Boeing’s Advanced Developmental Composites facility on East Marginal Way S. In Seattle Tuesday, January 5, 2020. This massive, windowless box-like building, the Boeing 9-101 Building, has housed many secretive developmental and research projects. It was here Boeing perfected the manufacturing methods used to fabricate large parts of the B-2 Stealth bomber in the early 1990s and the wings of the 787 in the 2000s. Boeing is planning to close this manufacturing research and development center. 216055

Lifted by Boeing hiring blitz, WA outpaces nation in job growth

Washington added jobs faster than the rest of the U.S. — and the boom includes companies, like Boeing, hit hard by COVID. But it missed some areas outside Seattle and some sectors.

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Mall customers ride the escalator up floors at Pacific Place in Seattle on Friday, May 13, 2022. The developer of Pacific Place filed preliminary documents to convert most of the retail space to offices on Wednesday. Converting the mall is estimated to cost $260 million.
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Police and FBI investigators on Monday, May 16, 2022, at the scene of Saturday’s mass shooting at Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y. The Tops supermarket was a hub in a largely Black section of Buffalo; that fact made it the target of a racist gunman. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times) XNYT129 XNYT129
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A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet flies over Mesa, Ariz., en route to Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport Wednesday afternoon, March 13, 2019. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. is issuing an emergency order grounding all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft in the wake of the crash of an Ethiopian Airliner that killed 157 people. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Clay Siegall, left, president and CEO of Seattle Genetics during an interview, Thurs., Oct. 8, 2015, in Bothell. At right is Todd Simpson, CFO of the company. 0434974834
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Owner Donna Moodie, right, talks to customer Sam Harrell, at Marjorie during dinner service on April 28, 2022. Harrell says that he is a frequent customer of the restaurant and he ordered chicken tikka masala, rice and pita for dinner.
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FILE – An airplane flies past the Boeing logo on the company’s headquarters in Chicago, on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2001. Boeing Co., a leading defense contractor and one of the world’s two dominant manufacturers of airline planes, is expected to move its headquarters from Chicago to the Washington, D.C., area, according to two people familiar with the matter. The decision could be announced as soon as later Thursday, May 5, 2022, according to one of the people. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) NYPH500 NYPH500
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Single family homes are seen from the air, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021 in a census tract which includes the Crossroads area of Bellevue. The FYIGuy reports: In 2010, just 15% of the residents of Bellevue’s Crossroads neighborhood (among those employed full-time) worked in computer/mathematical occupations. Census data shows that as of 2019, that number had jumped to 38%, representing the biggest increase in tech workers of any King County neighborhood. View looks southeast. 218309

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Signage is displayed outside a Family Dollar Stores Inc. store in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Dollar Tree Inc. released earnings figures on March 4. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg 775491799

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The fishing boat Pinnacle makes its way through an ice floe on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 in the Bering Sea southwest of St. Matthew Island. The Pinnacle, which is larger than most fishing boats that operate in the Bering Sea, can travel through some unconsolidated sea ice, although at a greatly-reduced speed. An ice floe with pieces like this can damage buoys, increasing the risk of a lost crab pot. (Loren Holmes / Anchorage Daily News)

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An Alaska Airlines jet takes off at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in April. A shortage of pilots caused a spate of flight cancellations that month that has continued since and caused travel chaos for many Alaska passengers. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle TImes)

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Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos in the basement launch site for his web venture. File Photo Jimi Lott 9/13/95 : AMAZON.COM’S JEFF BEZOS : INTERNET’S ULTIMATE CULT FIGURE : WHEN AMAZON.COM WAS JUST A FLEDGLING BUSINESS, JEFF BEZOS POSED WITH A CART OF BOOKS IN THE BASEMENT FROM WHICH THE BUSINESS WAS LAUNCHED. NOW, THE COMPANY SELLS ALL KINDS OF PRODUCTS AND BEZOS IS A BILLIONAIRE. (2 OF 2)

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Microsoft’s west campus in Redmond on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022.

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A car streams past Boeing’s Advanced Developmental Composites facility on East Marginal Way S. In Seattle Tuesday, January 5, 2020. This massive, windowless box-like building, the Boeing 9-101 Building, has housed many secretive developmental and research projects. It was here Boeing perfected the manufacturing methods used to fabricate large parts of the B-2 Stealth bomber in the early 1990s and the wings of the 787 in the 2000s. Boeing is planning to close this manufacturing research and development center. 216055

Lifted by Boeing hiring blitz, WA outpaces nation in job growth

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Pedestrians walk by the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in New York. Stocks closed sharply lower on Wall Street Wednesday as dismal results from Target renewed fears that inflation is battering U.S. companies. The S&P 500, the benchmark for many index funds, fell 4%. Target lost a quarter of its value, dragging other retailers down with it, after saying its profit fell by half in the latest quarter as costs for freight and transportation spiked. That comes a day after Walmart cited inflation for its own weak results. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan) NYPM201

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The State of Washington Employment Security Department, closed due to Covid-19, seen Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 in Olympia.

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A car streams past Boeing’s Advanced Developmental Composites facility on East Marginal Way S. In Seattle Tuesday, January 5, 2020. This massive, windowless box-like building, the Boeing 9-101 Building, has housed many secretive developmental and research projects. It was here Boeing perfected the manufacturing methods used to fabricate large parts of the B-2 Stealth bomber in the early 1990s and the wings of the 787 in the 2000s. Boeing is planning to close this manufacturing research and development center. 216055

Lifted by Boeing hiring blitz, WA outpaces nation in job growth

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