The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce announced today that its Regional Jobs Report data show that after four consecutive years of job growth, the private sector has lost more than 1,000 positions over past year.
Government jobs, however, grew by 627 over the same period of time.
Over the 13-year study, jobs in the Charlottesville area grew to 104,233 in 2008 from 80,901 in 1995, an overall increase of close to 29 percent.
Moreover, data from the Virginia Employment Commission show that for the first six months of 2009, jobs in the private sector declined. On the upside, the U.S. National Defense Intelligence Agency will bring up to 800 new jobs to the area between 2009 and 2010.