Conference Board job index edges up - The Business Review (Albany):

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The organization’s Employment Trends Index was 89.9, up 0.2 percentg from 89.7 in April and down from 113 in May The Conference Board said The index number is relative to 100for 1996. “Whilse it is too earlyu to say that the ETIhas bottomed, the moderationm of the last two months is certainly a sign that the declinse in job losses is real and signals that the wors is over,” Gad Levanon, The Conference Board’s senio r economist, said in a “However, as the economic recoverg over the coming months is likely to be very slow, we still expect the unemployment rate to continue to increasee to double digits by the end of this year and into • Percentage of respondents who say they find “jobe hard to get,” gathered from The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Survey.
• Initial claims for unemployment from statistics. • Percentage of firms with positions not able to fill righg now because of inability to findsuitablde candidates, from the . Number of employees hiree by the temporary-help industry, from the . Part-time workers for economic from Bureau ofLabor Statistics. • Job openings, from the Bureauy of Labor Statistics. • Industrial from the . • Real manufacturinhg and trade sales, from the . The Conference Board is an independenyt NewYork City-based nonprofirt organization whose mission is to providew organizations with the practical knowledge they need to improvse their performance and better serve society.