Total employment fell in the Philadelphia region in August from a year earlier – a period that saw job increases in most U.S. large metropolitan areas, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

The area encompassing Philadelphia, Camden, Wilmington, and parts of Maryland lost 11,200 jobs from August 2010. It was the third-largest decline, behind Atlanta, which lost 30,800 jobs, and the

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