In what may be an early sign of a rebounding job market, Minnesota companies added 2200 jobs in the month of October. Significantly, professional and business service jobs and temp jobs ticked up sharply. Temp jobs are often an leading indicator as companies test the waters with temp hires and October was the [...]
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Minnesota experienced a .7% reduction in its jobless rate last month, falling from 8% to 7.3%. On the surface, this looks like good news for the state, but the state also lost 7,900 jobs in the same time period. The apparently contradictory numbers result from different methodologies used to compute the statistics. [...]
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