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BRRRR! The county’s job market this winter...

By Jeffrey Perlman, Helene Elliott and Tom McQueeney

BRRRR! The county’s job market this winter may get as chilly as the winds, according to the latest survey of local employers. . . . Uncertain over the direction of the economy, about 15% intend to add personnel, but an equal number plan cutbacks, says temporary-help agency Manpower. Two-thirds of employers plan no changes at all. . . . A year ago, 18% planned to hire and only 5% planned cutbacks.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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