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Another Look At Those Job Numbers
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| Sure, America is once again creating jobs. But are most of them of the burger-flipping variety, with below-average pay? Many economists are concluding just that. "America's Job-Quality Trap" is the headline on a recent research report by Morgan Stanley (M |
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Jul 19, 2004 17:06:17 |
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| Similar news: | - Canadian job numbers edge up - More part-time, fewer full-time posts. 10,000 new workers in Quebec offset. Net employment loss in rest of the countryLynn Moore ...
- What do the job numbers mean? - The nation's job reports released Friday surprised just about everybody. Companies added 32,000 new positions to their payrolls in July, a much smaller increase than most economists expected. The unemployment rate, though, dipped to 5.5 percent.
- Beyond the Zigzag Job Numbers - The U.S. employment data have followed a "feast or famine" pattern in the last several months. The latest example: the anemic 78,000 rise in nonfarm payrolls in the May employment report released June 3. That was well below the 274,000 surge (unrevised) r
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