For the First Time in Eight Years, Small Businesses Cut Jobs Two Months in a Row

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Here’s another sign the U.S. economy is in the late stages of its expansion: Businesses with fewer than 20 employees cut jobs for the second month in a row, the first time that’s happened in eight years, according to private data provider ADP Research Institute.