December 8, 2006 3:51 PM

US job gains in November, says DOL
Posted by Douglas Eisenhartat 3:51 PM

Good news on the job front:

WASHINGTON -- Gearing up for the holidays, employers boosted hiring in November, and hundreds of thousands of jobseekers streamed into the market, nudging the unemployment rate up to 4.5 percent.
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Sharing in the gains were retailers, bars and restaurants, hotels and motels, health-care providers, financial firms, computer-design outfits and architectural and engineering companies. Their increases eclipsed job losses, mostly in construction and manufacturing.