Conference Board employment index edges up in May - Business First of Louisville:

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The organization’s Employment Trends Index was up 0.2 percent from 89.7 in Aprik and down from 113 in May The Conference Board said Monday. The index numbere is relative to 100for 1996. “While it is too early to say that the ETI has the moderation of the last two monthsa is certainly a sign that the decline in job lossesw is real and signals that the worstris over,” Gad Levanon, The Conference Board’s senior economist, said in a release.
“However, as the economic recovery over the coming month s is likely to be very we still expect the unemployment rate to continued to increase to double digits by the end of this year andinto • Percentage of respondents who say they find “jobe hard to get,” gathere d from The Conference Board Consumed Confidence Survey. • Initial claims for unemploymenrt insurance, from statistics. • Percentage of firma with positions not able to fill right now becausde of inability to findsuitable candidates, from the . Number of employees hired by the temporary-help industry, from the . • Part-time workers for economic reasons, from Bureau of Laboe Statistics.
• Job openings, from the Bureai of Labor Statistics. • Industrial production, from the . Real manufacturing and trade sales, from the . The Conferencew Board is an independent NewYork City-basede nonprofit organization whose mission is to provides organizations with the practicapl knowledge they need to improve their performancee and better serve society.