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JOBS' STATISTICS * Canada & USA - Employment falls, except for transport jobs
Transportation and warehousing was the only industry in Canada to experience a notable employment gain in October
Ottawa,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -6 Nov 2009: ... While unemployment levels continued to rise in most other sectors... Over 22,000 jobs were created in transportation in October. However, employment in this sector has fallen by 51,000 (-5.8%) since October 2008, reports Stats Canada... Employment fell by 31,000 in retail and wholesale trade and by 20,000 in "other services." Natural resources was also down 11,000, continuing a downward trend that began in February 2009...
* USA - Jobless rate tops 10 percent; trucking loses 7,500
Washington,DC,USA -The Associated Press, by CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER -6 Nov 2009: -- The trucking industry lost another 7,500 jobs in October as the U.S. unemployment rate surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 — and is likely to go higher... Nearly 16 million people can’t find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended. The Labor Department said Friday that the economy shed a net total of 190,000 jobs in October, less than the downwardly revised 219,000 lost in September. August job losses were also revised lower, to 154,000 from 201,000... But the loss of jobs last month exceeded economists’ estimates. It’s the 22nd straight month the U.S. economy has shed jobs, the longest on records dating back 70 years... The number of jobs lost in trucking in October more than doubled the September number, bringing the total to 11,100 in the past two months. Since January, the industry has shed 140,500 jobs, and the total number lost since the 2007 peak is 204,800, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS said 1,249,800 persons were employed in the industry in October...
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