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Sovremennyye Fasadnyye Sistemy launches first aluminum profiles production line in Simferopol

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More folks are snagging jobs in the D.C. metro area.

The Washington region’s February unemployment rate was 3.5%, down from 3.7% in both January and February 2018.

The rate is a few points lower than the national unemployment rate in March, which was unchanged at 3.8% according to the Labor Department report released Friday (April 5).

Overall, unemployment rates fell in 283 of the nation’s 389 metropolitan areas in February.