Published On: December 5th, 2009
Employment growth in the U.S. health-care industry is nothing to write home about, unless you compare it most other sectors in the economy. That performance remained intact in November as the the government reported health-care employment grew by 21,000, even as the nation continued to shed jobs.
Here’s the Bureau of Labor Statistics report and more from the WSJ.
For those keeping score, the latest numbers mean that health care has added 613,000 jobs since the start of the recession began in December, 2007. Meanwhile, the overall number of unemployed has jumped by almost eight million during that period even though the November unemployment rate fell to 10% from 10.2%.
Every subcategory within BLS’s health-care grouping showed job growth in November except outpatient care centers, which lost 3,300 positions. Home health-care services added 7,300 jobs and hospitals put another 6,800 on their payrolls.
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