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My personal musings about anything that gets on my radar screen--heavily dominated by politics.

2006-03-10

Jobs, Jobs, Everywhere Jobs

Hiring gained ground in February with employers adding 243,000 jobs, the most in three months. Brighter job prospects sent people streaming into the labor market

I wonder why this news wasn't on the front page of the Comcast News, or in the Headlines of the MSNBC web page.

No I don't.

Other details:

The unemployment rate inched up to 4.8 percent from a 4 1/2 year low of 4.7 percent in January. The bump-up in the jobless rate came as people — feeling better about job prospects — applied for work in droves.

The report also showed that employees’ average hourly earnings rose to $16.47 in February, a 0.3 percent increase from January. That was in line with economists’ expectations.

However, compared with February of last year, average hourly earnings increased by 3.5 percent — the most since September 2001.

That sounds all good for America.

Again, wonder why this isn't font page stuff.
Posted by: Michael / 3/10/2006 07:34:00 AM

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