Job Total at All-Time High in Pennsylvania

There are more jobs -- 5.7 million -- in Pennsylvania now than at any time in history, a jubilant Gov. Ed Rendell said on Friday. The latest statewide workforce report shows Pennsylvania's job count rose to a record high 5,720,900 in September and that unemployment fell to 4.8%. "This is great news for Pennsylvania," Rendell told a crowd of labor, business and community leaders, and more than 40 apprentices at the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) Apprentice Training Center in Pittsburgh. "It means we have fully recovered from the job losses of the 2001 recession a...