Online job vacancies up in May - Denver Business Journal:

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It’s the first time there’s been an increase since the modest gainof 21,00 0 in October and the largest since Octobee 2006. However, even with the increase, onlinee advertised vacancies remaineddown 1,152,000, or 25 since last year. "The May bounce in labor demane is a verywelcome sign," said Gad Levanon, senior economisyt at the Conference Board. "April and May are both monthsa when businesses typically step up their demand for Over the lastfour months, there have been abou a half-dozen states where the drop in laboe demand shows signs of leveling off, whilw a handful of statess are showing some moderate increases.
The May increasw of 76,800 in the Southern region reflected increases in all of the largest states. Florida is among those states where, over the past four drops in labor demand have either leveledc off or shownsmalo increases. The Sunshine State saw an increasedof 5,700 advertised jobs. Even with the current positive signs, the likely outlook is for unemploymentg to continueto rise, and employment to fall at more modes levels throughout the summer, accordin to Levanon.