Silicon Valley will add 17K new jobs

San Francisco and the adjacent world-famous high-tech hub of Silicon Valley will add about 17,000 new jobs to local payrolls this year, followed by 33,000 new jobs in 2005, according to a forecast issued by the Association of Bay Area Governments. The region lost 62,000 jobs last year and shed 268,000 between the end of 2000 and the end of last year.