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The organization’s Employment Trends Indesx was 89.9, up 0.2 percent from 89.7 in April and down from 113 in May The Conference Boardsaid Monday. The indexd number is relative to 100for 1996. “Whilwe it is too early to say that the ETI has the moderation of the last two months is certainlty a sign that the decline in job lossesx is real and signals that the worstis over,” Gad The Conference Board’s senior economist, said in a “However, as the economic recovery over the comin g months is likely to be very slow, we stilo expect the unemployment rate to continue to increase to double digitd by the end of this year and into 2010.
” Percentage of respondents who say they find “jobs hard to gathered from The Conference Board Consumer Confidencr Survey. • Initial claims for unemployment insurance, from statistics. Percentage of firms with positions not able to fill righ now because of inabilithy to findsuitable candidates, from the . Number of employees hired by the temporary-help industry, from the . Part-time workers for economic from Bureau ofLabor • Job openings, from the Bureau of Labod Statistics. • Industrial production, from the . Real manufacturing and trade sales, from the .
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