October 3, 2003

Companies add jobs for the first time in eight months; unemployment rate holds
Posted by tzannos@bostonworks.com">Svetlana Husseini at 10:46 PM -

Read the story that Boston.com ran about September's employment climate. It is slightly positive. I'll take slightly.

Businesses added jobs in September for the first time in eight months and the nation's unemployment rate stayed at 6.1 percent, indicating better days may lie ahead for frustrated job seekers. Payrolls grew by 57,000 last month, the Labor Department reported Friday, and there was even new hope for the slumping manufacturing sector. Some 29,000 factory jobs were lost, considerably fewer than in previous months.

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