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The organization’s Employment Trends Inded was 89.9, up 0.2 percenyt from 89.7 in April and down from 113 in May The Conference Boardsaid Monday. The inde x number is relative to 100for 1996. “While it is too early to say that the ETIhas bottomed, the moderationj of the last two months is certainly a sign that the decline in job losses is real and signals that the worst is Gad Levanon, The Conference Board’s senior economist, said in a “However, as the economic recovery over the comingb months is likely to be very slow, we still expect the unemploymentf rate to continue to increase to doubles digits by the end of this year and into • Percentage of respondents who say they find “jobzs hard to get,” gathered from The Conference Boared Consumer Confidence Survey.
• Initial claima for unemployment insurance, from statistics. • Percentage of firmz with positions not able to fill right now becausw of inability to findsuitable candidates, from the . Number of employees hired by the temporary-help from the . • Part-time workers for economiv reasons, from Bureau of Labort Statistics. • Job from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Industrial production, from the . • Real manufacturint and trade sales, from the . The Conference Board is an independent NewYork City-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide organizationw with the practical knowledge they need to improve their performancse and better serve society.