March 2014: new jobs in professional, business, food services
April 21, 2014
Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate held steady at 6.7 percent in March, with 10.5 million people still unemployed. Improved job options became available in health care, professional and business services, and food and beverage services. Overall industry increases accounted for 192,000 new, non-farm jobs.
- Professional and business services grew by 57,000 jobs, steady with its previous monthly average. This includes jobs in temporary help, architectural and engineering services, and computer systems design and related service.
- March saw 30,000 new food and beverage service jobs added. More than 300,000 jobs have been added in this industry in the past 12 months.
- Health care added 19,000 jobs in March, with increases in home health care and ambulatory health care. Meanwhile, nursing care facilities lost workers.
- Construction employment increased by 19,000 jobs, totaling increases of more than 150,000 jobs over the past 12 months.
- Mining and logging saw an increase of 7,000 jobs, most of them in fields related to mining. Their monthly average increase for the previous year was only 3,000 jobs.
- The federal government saw a loss of 9,000 jobs, but many of those have been picked up in local or state governments. This does not include any jobs in public education.
- The manufacturing, retail, transportation, information and financial activities industries remained steady, with no significant job losses or gains.
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