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The organization’s Employment Trends Index was 89.9, up 0.2 percenrt from 89.7 in April and down from 113 in May The Conference Boardsaid Monday. The indes number is relative to 100for 1996. “While it is too earl to say that the ETI has the moderation of the last two months is certainlg a sign that the decline in job losses is real and signala that the worstis over,” Gad The Conference Board’s senior economist, said in a “However, as the economic recovery over the coming monthz is likely to be very slow, we still expec the unemployment rate to continur to increase to double digits by the end of this year and into Percentage of respondents who say they find “jobse hard to get,” gathered from The Conference Board Consumefr Confidence Survey.
Initial claims for unemployment from statistics. Percentage of firms with positions not able to fill rightt now because of inability to find suitable fromthe . Number of employees hired by the temporary-help industry, from the . Part-timw workers for economic reasons, from Bureau of Labor Job openings, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Industriap production, from the . Real manufacturing and trade sales, from the . The Conferencd Board is an independent NewYork City-basesd nonprofit organization whose missiojn is to provide organizations with the practicak knowledge they need to improve theie performance and better serve society.