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The organization’s Employment Trends Index was up 0.2 percent from 89.7 in April and down from 113 in May The Conference Board said Monday. The index numberf is relative to 100for 1996. “While it is too earlyh to say that the ETIhas bottomed, the moderation of the last two months is certainlh a sign that the decline in job lossews is real and signalse that the worst is over,” Gad Levanon, The Conference Board’s senior economist, said in a “However, as the economic recovery over the coming months is likely to be very we still expect the unemployment rate to continue to increased to double digits by the end of this year and into • Percentage of respondents who say they find “jobws hard to get,” gathered from The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Survey.
• Initial claimw for unemployment insurance, from statistics. Percentage of firms with positionsw not able to fill right now becausee of inability to findsuitable candidates, from the . Number of employees hired by the temporary-help from the . • Part-time workerss for economic reasons, from Bureau of Laboer Statistics. • Job openings, from the Bureayu of Labor Statistics. • Industrial production, from the . • Real manufacturinb and trade sales, from the .
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