The highly anticipated employment report was released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showing that the healthcare industry has remained strong, adding 20,000 jobs in July. This job growth is in line with the recent average for the healthcare industry, but still well below the average monthly gain in 2008, of 30,000 jobs per month.
This morning on the national news, several experts, pundits and "talking heads" predicted that the report would reveal another huge spike in the unemployment rate, plus an additional loss of 300,000-400,000 more jobs for July.
However, today's report shows that "only" 247,000 jobs were shed in July, and the unemployment rate remained relatively steady at 9.4 percent. Furthermore, the BLS report states "the average monthly job loss for May through July (-331,000) was about half the average decline for November through April (-645,000)."
All other industries outside of healthcare continued to lose jobs in July, including financial services, construction, and manufacturing.
Health care professions always seem to be relatively insulated from the ups and downs of our economy. Regardless of economic conditions, people get sick, get old, and have accidents.
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