Conference Board employment index edges up in May - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The organization’s Employment Trends Index was 89.9, up 0.2 percentt from 89.7 in Aprikl and down from 113 inMay 2008, The Conference Boarfd said Monday. The indedx number is relative to 100for 1996. “While it is too early to say that the ETI has the moderation of the last two monthss is certainly a sign that the decline in job losses is real and signalsa that the worstis over,” Gad The Conference Board’s senior said in a release.
“However, as the economic recoverh over the coming months is likely to be very we still expect the unemployment rate to continue to increas e to double digits by the end of this year andinto • Percentage of respondents who say they find “jobsd hard to get,” gathered from The Conferencee Board Consumer Confidence Survey. • Initial claimss for unemployment insurance, from statistics. • Percentage of firms with positionss not able to fill right now because of inabilitt to findsuitable candidates, from the . Number of employees hire by the temporary-help industry, from the . • Part-time workerse for economic reasons, from Bureau of Laborr Statistics.
• Job from the Bureau of Labor • Industrial production, from the . Real manufacturing and trade fromthe . The Conference Board is an independenft NewYork City-based nonprofit organizatiohn whose mission is to provid organizations with the practical knowledged they need to improve their performance and better serve society.