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Private sector recovers jobs lost since 2008. Will wage gains follow?
Private-sector jobs, which plummeted in the recession, are at last back to 2008 levels, the Labor Department's jobs report for March shows. But public-sector jobs are down, more people want to work, and average hourly wages haven't budged.
By Mark Trumbull, Staff writer / April 4, 2014
Union members with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) listen as Senate Democratic leaders urge approval for raising the minimum wage on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. While private jobs are back to 2008 levels, government has shed some 547,000 jobs, and wages overall are stagnant.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
American employers hired 192,000 new workers in March, a sign that the job market appears to be leaving a winter chill behind.
The job gains, reported by the Labor Department on Friday, finally nudged private-sector payrolls above the level reached as a deep recession was beginning six years ago. Payroll employment is now about 100,000 jobs higher than the roughly 116 million jobs that private firms provided back in January 2008....
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Private-sector jobs, which plummeted in the recession, are at last back to 2008 levels, the Labor Department's jobs report for March shows. But public-sector jobs are down, more people want to work, and average hourly wages haven't budged.
By Mark Trumbull, Staff writer / April 4, 2014
Union members with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) listen as Senate Democratic leaders urge approval for raising the minimum wage on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. While private jobs are back to 2008 levels, government has shed some 547,000 jobs, and wages overall are stagnant.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
American employers hired 192,000 new workers in March, a sign that the job market appears to be leaving a winter chill behind.
The job gains, reported by the Labor Department on Friday, finally nudged private-sector payrolls above the level reached as a deep recession was beginning six years ago. Payroll employment is now about 100,000 jobs higher than the roughly 116 million jobs that private firms provided back in January 2008....
ANY CHANCE HATER DUPES CAN STOP MOANING ABOUT GLOOM AND DOOM AND OUR GROWING BIG GOV'T BS? i DIDN'T THINK SO LOL...IDIOTS...
![cuckoo :cuckoo: :cuckoo:](/styles/smilies/cuckoo.gif)
![eusa_whistle :eusa_whistle: :eusa_whistle:](/styles/smilies/eusa_whistle.gif)