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Non-farm employment is expected to grow through the end of the year in most regions of the Bay Area, according to a recent forecast released by Beacon Economics, an economic research firm based in Los Angeles.

Employment in San Francisco and San Mateo counties is expected to grow by about 3.5 percent while in the East Bay employment is forecast to rise by about 1.5 percent. In the South Bay, covering Santa Clara and San Benito counties, job growth is forecast to be about 2.5 percent.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.