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Gallup Survey: US Job Creation Index Returns to Record High
Gallup ^ | 06/12/2017 | by Art Swift

Posted on 06/12/2017 7:50:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup's Job Creation Index was +37 in May, tied with the record high found in March. This marks 15 straight months of the index reaching +30 or higher.

The index has generally been moving upward since bottoming out at -5 in April 2009 during the Great Recession. It has been in positive territory since February 2010.

Gallup's Job Creation Index is based on employed U.S. adults' reports of whether their employer is hiring workers and expanding the size of its workforce, or letting people go and reducing the size of its workforce. Gallup computes the index by subtracting the percentage of those who say their employer is cutting jobs from the percentage who say their employer is adding jobs.

In May, 46% of employees said their company was hiring, compared with 45% in April. Meanwhile, the percentage who said their company was letting workers go held steady at 9%. Forty percent of workers said their employer was not changing the size of its workforce.

The Job Creation Index is a nearly real-time indicator of the nation's employment picture across all industries and business sectors. Gallup's index does not measure the type (full time or part time) or quality of the job gains or losses as reported by workers.

East Lags Behind South, Midwest and West in Job Creation

Worker reports of hiring have been much less positive in the East than in other regions of the country. In the East, the Job Creation Index averaged +31 in May, compared with scores of +42 in the South, +38 in the Midwest and +37 in the West. This year, Southern and Midwestern employees have generally been more likely to report net job creation than have workers in the West. The East has experienced virtually no growth since last fall.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jobs; unemployment


1 posted on 06/12/2017 7:50:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Looks like if the NeverTrumpers and The Resisters want to succeed they’ll have to sabotage the economy.


2 posted on 06/12/2017 8:04:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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>>>Looks like if the NeverTrumpers and The Resisters want to succeed they’ll have to sabotage the economy.

That's the fly in the soup. What will those who control the behind the scenes money do.

3 posted on 06/12/2017 8:11:23 AM PDT by NELSON111
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4 posted on 06/12/2017 10:29:42 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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The 0bamaphytes and the Hillaryites are gnashing their teeth over these numbers as they would rather see the demise of the USA than Trump to succeed


5 posted on 06/13/2017 9:47:08 AM PDT by okie 54
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