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By Andrea Santiago, About.com Guide to Health Careers

Healthcare Adds 21,000 Jobs in June

Thursday July 2, 2009
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the June numbers today. Regarding healthcare employment, the report states good news:
"The health care industry added 21,000 jobs over the month, in line with its average monthly gain for the first 5 months of this year, but below the average gain of 30,000 jobs per month in 2008."
Additionally, in a positive sign, the unemployment rate remained relatively stable, only ticking up a tenth of a percentage point, to 9.5 percent. While not wonderful news, at least the increase in the unemployment rate was not as significant of a jump as we have seen in recent months.

Despite the good news in healthcare, a total of 467,000 jobs were lost in other industries in the month of June. That's 467,000 reasons why I'm glad to be working in the healthcare industry.

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