The country now has fewer jobs than it did nine years ago, even though the workforce has grown by 12.5 million people since then. Above, a job hunter last month at a Riverside, Calif., job center.
(Francis Specker/Bloomberg News)
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Monster suffers, along with job market
The country now has fewer jobs than it did nine years ago, even though the workforce has grown by 12.5 million people since then. Above, a job hunter last month at a Riverside, Calif., job center.
(Francis Specker/Bloomberg News)
July 3, 2009
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Americans are lining up to find jobs - but investors aren’t in line to buy Monster Worldwide Inc. shares. The world’s largest online recruiting company slid after a Labor Department report showed the US economy lost more jobs in June than economists had forecast. Robert Half International Inc., a staffing firm that recruits and places temporary workers, slipped yesterday, too, by 9.5 percent to $21.35.
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