Employers Add 157,000 Jobs in May
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WASHINGTON -- Employers showed a decent appetite to hire in May, boosting payrolls by 157,000, the most in two months. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.5 percent.
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Midwestern U.S. business expansion was  faster than expected in May, with new orders and hiring  bouncing back from weak April levels, a report showed on  Wednesday.
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Private employers added 130,000 jobs in January, about three times the number that economists had been expecting, a report by a private employment service said on Wednesday.
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U.S. manufacturing grew a bit more  rapidly in May as factory managers restocked depleted  inventories, according to a survey published on Friday.
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Marks and Spencer, the clothing-to-food retailer, has revealed that it would create 4,000 jobs alongside news of a solid increase in first-quarter sales.
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Shares rallied after the government said that employers added more jobs and that wage increases slowed last month.
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Employers added 2.2 million jobs in 2004, the first annual increase in payrolls since before the 2001 recession and a turning point for the nation's labor market after three years of job losses.
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The nation needs to add about 150,000 jobs a month to keep pace with population growth, according to economists. While employers have added jobs for 12 consecutive months, the
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Employers boosted payrolls by a better-than-expected 132,000 jobs in June, enough to keep the unemployment rate at a relatively low 4.5 percent. It was another sign that the economy is snapping out of a nearly yearlong sluggish spell.
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Employers added 132,000 jobs in June, fewer than in May but consistent with an economy still shaking itself out of a slump.
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US employers added 96,000 jobs last month, a tepid performance that disappointed Wall Street markets but was strong enough to keep the unemployment rate from rising above 5.4 percent.
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New applications for U.S.  unemployment benefits jumped by 19,000 last week on the back of  the traditional summer shutdown at automobile plants, according  to government data released on Thursday.
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Employers aggressively hired new workers in October, adding 337,000 people to payrolls after a sluggish summer, although the overall unemployment rate rose marginally, to 5.5 percent.
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US employers added 97,000 jobs in February, new data showed Friday, suggesting the world's biggest economy is chugging along despite weakness in the housing and auto sectors.
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U.S. employers added 157,000 employees to payrolls in December, completing the strongest year for job growth since 1999, according to a government report on Friday that cemented expectations of rising interest rates in 2005.
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U.S. employers added a stronger-than-expected 132,000 new jobs in June and also boosted payrolls more strongly than previously thought in April and May, according to a Labor Department report that underlined a strengthening job market.
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A monthly index of online recruitment  rose to a record level in May, reflecting hiring demand in most  industries, Monster Worldwide Inc.  said on Thursday.