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Survey: Private sector hiring picked up in August
The US private sector stepped up hiring more than expected last month, a closely watched survey showed Thursday on the eve of the much-awaited August government jobs report Friday. Payrolls company ADP said private-sector employment rose by 201,000 in July, after an upwardly revised July gain of 173,000. The August…
Public sector cuts dragging down U.S.’s already fragile economic recovery
For the last 24 years James Estep has worked in public education. He has never seen anything like this. The superintendent of Pennsylvania’s Mifflin county school district is wrestling with a multimillion deficit that last year led to him cutting 83 jobs – a fifth of his workforce – and…
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