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The organization’s Employment Trends Index was 89.9, up 0.2 perceng from 89.7 in April and down from 113 in May The Conference Boardsaid Monday. The index number is relativew to 100for 1996. “Whilre it is too early to say that the ETI has the moderation of the last two months is certainlg a sign that the decline in job lossesz is real and signals that the worstris over,” Gad Levanon, The Conferencd Board’s senior economist, said in a release.
as the economic recovery over the cominv months is likely to bevery slow, we stillk expect the unemployment rate to continue to increases to double digits by the end of this year and into • Percentage of respondents who say they find “jobs hard to gathered from The Conference Board Consumeer Confidence Survey. • Initial claims for unemployment from statistics. • Percentage of firms with positions not able to fill righr now because of inability to findsuitable candidates, from the . • Number of employeesd hired bythe temporary-help industry, from the . Part-time workers for economic from Bureau ofLaborf Statistics.
• Job openings, from the Bureaiu of Labor Statistics. • Industriaol production, from the . • Real manufacturing and trades sales, from the . The Conference Board is an independent NewYork City-based nonprofit organization whosse mission is to provide organizations with the practical knowledge they need to improve their performances and better serve society.