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Health care reform may also be a reason some employers are holding back, Zandi said. Companies with 50 or more employees in 2013 have to provide insurance for their workers next year. Firms with 20 to 49 employees have cut hiring for three straight months, from 53,000 in January to just 17,000 last month. Hiring has also slowed in restaurants, hotels and retailers. Zandi said those are industries where health care coverage is generally lower. Zandi said he would like to see more data before drawing a firm conclusion, but it "feels like health care is having an impact." The economy grew at an annual rate of 2.5 percent from January through March, the government said last week. That was an improvement from the anemic growth rate of 0.4 percent in the final three months of last year. But most economists expect growth is slowing in the current quarter and will stay weak into the fall.
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