{"id":2349,"date":"2010-06-04T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/06\/employment-still-lagging\/"},"modified":"2010-06-09T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T18:32:02","slug":"employment-still-lagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/06\/employment-still-lagging\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment Still Lagging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/37505460\" target=\"_blank\">The latest employment numbers are out and it doesn\u2019t look good<\/a> (emphasis mine).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US employers added 430,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls in May, but <strong>411,000 of those were temporary census workers<\/strong>. That number was also well short of the more than 500,000 economists had expected. The unemployment rate, however, fell to 9.7 percent from 9.9 percent in April.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still don\u2019t expect to see significant hiring gains until Q4 of this year at the earliest.\u00a0 My highly non-scientific polling (talking to customers) shows that most are still in a tentative mode.\u00a0 Perhaps some more enlightened analysis will surface later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest employment numbers are out and it doesn\u2019t look good (emphasis mine). US employers added 430,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls in May, but 411,000 of those were temporary census workers. That number was also well short of the more than 500,000 economists had expected. The unemployment rate, however, fell to 9.7 percent from 9.9 percent in April. I still don\u2019t expect to see significant hiring gains until Q4 of this year at the earliest.\u00a0 My highly non-scientific polling (talking to customers) shows that most are still in a tentative mode.\u00a0 Perhaps some more enlightened analysis will surface later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,2,5],"tags":[529,905,1748,50,117],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-hiring","category-trends","tag-employment","tag-employment-report","tag-hiring","tag-hiring-trend","tag-jobs-report"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-BT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2472,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2011\/01\/how-to-tell-you-are-in-a-bad-economy\/","url_meta":{"origin":2349,"position":0},"title":"How To Tell You Are In A Bad Economy","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Herman Trend Alert (emphasis mine): In December, companies with fewer than 300 employees experienced employment growth of 1.54 percent, representing the largest percentage increase since June 2010. 1.54 percent?\u00a0 That is encouraging?\u00a0 I know, I realize there has been little to no growth, but 1.54 percent is almost\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2300,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/03\/2010-hiring-trends\/","url_meta":{"origin":2349,"position":1},"title":"2010 Hiring Trends","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 31, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Herman Group newsletter: According to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Surveys, the US will have a year-over-year increase of about five percent with a record-tying 73 percent of employers keeping staff levels stable. Twelve of the 13 industry sectors surveyed report positive net employment outlooks, meaning employers in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1682,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/hiring-stats-should-be-localized\/","url_meta":{"origin":2349,"position":2},"title":"Hiring Stats Should Be Localized","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"You ever notice what a mixed bag of economic news we receive these days?\u00a0 Here is one that caught my eye from CNNMoney.com (my editing): The private sector gained 9,000 jobs in July, primarily among small businesses and the service sector, according to a report payroll manager ADP released Wednesday.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":883,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/where-the-jobs-are\/","url_meta":{"origin":2349,"position":3},"title":"Where The Jobs Are","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"In small businesses according to Inc.com's short article Small Businesses Driving Job Growth. Private-sector payrolls rose by 64,000 jobs in April, including 45,000 new jobs at small businesses, according to the ADP National Employment Report. By contrast, jobs at larger firms dropped by 10,000, the fourth straight month of declines,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2381,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/07\/the-unanswered-question\/","url_meta":{"origin":2349,"position":4},"title":"The Unanswered Question","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Take a look at this headline from Twin Cities Business: MN June Unemployment Rate Drops, Sheds 3,700 Jobs Jobs are lost and the unemployment rate decreases\u2026how can this be?\u00a0 It is a question that begs an answer, yet you won\u2019t find it in this article.\u00a0 The closest it comes: Minnesota\u2019s\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":497,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/twin-cities-hiring-trend\/","url_meta":{"origin":2349,"position":5},"title":"Twin Cities&#8217; Hiring Trend","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I never put much stock in these types of surveys, but the local Pioneer Press reports on the recent Manpower survey: Twin Cities employers expect to hire at a sluggish pace during the first quarter of 2007, a Manpower employment survey found. 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