the period 1980 to
             1993, when the state enjoyed very low unemployment rates relative to
             the nation as a whole. But by 1994 the recession had raised Hawaii's
             unemployment rate to the national average (6.1%) for the first time in
             15 years. In 1995, the state's unemployment rate improved slightly in
             the first eleven months of the year to 5.4 percent, a 0.6 percentage
             point decline from the first eleven months of 1994. Despite the lower
             unemployment rate, the total number of wage and salary jobs declined
             by 0.6 percent during the first eleven months of 1995. This was due
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