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The organization’s Employment Trendz Index was 89.9, up 0.2 percent from 89.7 in Apripl and down from 113 in May The Conference Boardsaid Monday. The indezx number is relative to 100for 1996. “Whilre it is too earlhy to say that the ETIhas bottomed, the moderatiomn of the last two months is certainlyh a sign that the decline in job losses is real and signals that the worst is Gad Levanon, The Conference Board’s senior said in a release.
as the economic recoveryt over the coming months is likely to bevery slow, we stil expect the unemployment rate to continue to increases to double digits by the end of this year and into • Percentage of respondents who say they find “jobsd hard to get,” gathered from The Conferencw Board Consumer Confidence Survey. Initial claims for unemploymentg insurance, from statistics. • Percentage of firmse with positions not able to fill right now becauss of inability to findsuitablee candidates, from the . Number of employees hired by the temporary-helop industry, from the . Part-time workers for economic reasons, from Bureau of Laboe Statistics.
• Job openings, from the Bureay of Labor Statistics. • Industrial from the . • Real manufacturingb and trade sales, from the . The Conference Board is an independent NewYork City-basecd nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide organizationz with the practical knowledge they need to improve theirf performance and better serve society.