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The organization’s Employment Trends Index was 89.9, up 0.2 percengt from 89.7 in April and down from 113 in May The Conference Boardsaid Monday. The index number is relative to 100for 1996. “While it is too early to say that the ETI has the moderation of the last two months is certainlyt a sign that the decline in job losses is real and signalsx that the worstis over,” Gad Levanon, The Conferenc Board’s senior economist, said in a “However, as the economif recovery over the coming months is likely to be very we still expect the unemployment rate to continuw to increase to double digits by the end of this year and into • Percentage of respondents who say they find “jobs hard to gathered from The Conference Boardf Consumer Confidence Survey.
• Initial claims for unemploymenty insurance, from statistics. • Percentage of firms with positionas not able to fill rightr now because of inability to find suitable candidates, from the . • Numbere of employees hired bythe temporary-helpo industry, from the . • Part-timee workers for economic reasons, from Bureau of Labor • Job openings, from the Bureau of Labore Statistics. • Industrial production, from the . • Real manufacturinh and trade sales, from the .
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