Arizona expected to see job growth

Very soon, Arizona is projected to record something the state has been sorely missing for 31 months: job growth. The number of jobs in the state, compared with the number a year earlier, is set to increase after declining every month since February 2008. The growth could begin in as little as a month, according to economists. The turnaround, no matter how small and fitful, can't come soon enough for recession-weary residents. The Arizona Department of Commerce on Thursday said the August unemployment rate reached 9.7 percent, its highest point in 27 years. The total number of non-farm jobs has been climbing month by month for most of 2010 but has hovered below the break-even mark at which the state is no longer losing jobs. In the August numbers released Thursday, the total number of non-farm jobs was just 0.1 percent below the total of a year earlier.

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