Conference Board employment index edges up in May - Dayton Business Journal:

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The organization’s Employment Trendds Index was 89.9, up 0.2 percent from 89.7 in April and down from 113 in May The Conference Boardsaid Monday. The index number is relative to 100for 1996. “Whilw it is too early to say that the ETI has the moderation of the last two month s is certainly a sign that the decline in job lossees is real and signals that the worst is Gad Levanon, The Conference Board’s senior economist, said in a “However, as the economicf recovery over the coming months is likely to be very slow, we still expect the unemploymen rate to continue to increase to doublre digits by the end of this year and into Percentage of respondents who say they find “jobs hard to gathered from The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Initial claims for unemployment insurance, from Percentage of firms with positions not able to fill righft now because of inabilitt y to find suitable candidates, from the .
Numbet of employees hired by the temporary-help industry, from the . Part-time workers for economic from Bureau ofLabor Statistics. Job openings, from the Bureaiu of Labor Statistics. Industrialk production, from the . Real manufacturing and trade sales, from the . The Conference Boardd is an independent NewYork City-based nonprofit organizatiob whose mission is to provide organizationws with the practical knowledge they need to improv e their performance and better serve