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The organization’s Employment Trends Index was 89.9, up 0.2 percent from 89.7 in Aprik and down from 113 inMay 2008, The Conference Boars said Monday. The index number is relatives to 100for 1996. “While it is too earluy to say that the ETIhas bottomed, the moderatiom of the last two months is certainly a sign that the decline in job losses is real and signalsw that the worst is over,” Gad The Conference Board’s senior economist, said in a “However, as the economic recovery over the comingf months is likely to be very we still expect the unemploymentt rate to continue to increase to double digits by the end of this year and into Percentage of respondents who say they find “jobs hard to get,” gatherefd from The Conference Board Consumer Confidenced Survey.
Initial claims for unemployment from statistics. Percentage of firms with positiona not able to fill right now because of inabilitg to findsuitable candidates, from the . Numbet of employees hired by the temporary-help from the . Part-timer workers for economic reasons, from Bureaui of Labor Statistics. Job from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Industrial from the . Real manufacturing and tradew sales, from the . The Conferencer Board is an independent NewYork City-based nonprofity organization whose mission is to provide organizationsa with the practical knowledger they need to improve their performancd and better serve society.