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Economy Making Gains04-01-10 | News

Economy Making Gains




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This summer the market you may want to target for your business is residential, which is fairly better than the commercial or industrial segments.
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The emerging positive signs in design activity are a reflection of significant improvement in the broader economy. Key to a broad-based recovery in the economy is job growth. The past two months have seen further declines in payroll levels for U.S. businesses; smaller losses than feared, but losses nonetheless.

However, the parallel employment survey of households has shown more positive trends as both the number of people in the labor force?EUR??,,????'?????<

One possible reason for this discrepancy is that the household survey picks up self-employed persons as well as many temporary workers who are not reported on business payrolls. During the early stages of most business recoveries, these two types of workers generally see stronger employment gains than traditional payroll workers. ?EUR??,,????'?????<

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