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This Drag on U.S. Job Growth Isn't Going Away Anytime Soon

Export industries may keep losing about 50,000 jobs a month into mid-2016
Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
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Employment is taking a dive in industries that sell a lot of U.S.-made goods abroad, and things could get worse before they get better.

The double whammy to exports from the stronger dollar and cooling overseas markets was bound to hit employment in the world's largest economy. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has put numbers to the damage.