But educational and health care employers continued to add workers in November.
Businesses from Goldman Sachs to Intel to Microsoft are trying to add workers at a furious pace--and they are having problems doing so.
But layoffs are only half the equation: Companies also need to be confident enough to add workers for job growth to pick up and lower the unemployment rate.
His economic initiatives seem to be starting to bear fruit: Caterpillar, a heavy-equipment giant, said last month that new business-tax laws have persuaded it to add workers at an Indiana factory where it had previously cut jobs.
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What it can do is build the infrastructure and offer the incentives that will allow small businesses to add workers, that will help entrepreneurs take a chance on an idea, that will lead manufacturers to set up shop not overseas but right here in United States of America.
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Add the workers' dependants and the number of refugees nearly doubles.
Add in workers who have taken a pay cut or have had their wages frozen since the Great Recession began, and much darker picture of the American economy emerges.
Even as the economy struggles to add jobs, workers keep moving around, sometimes for greener pastures.
Indeed, some workers add an extra cycle of the hopper for every honk of a horn.
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After the exterior walls are hung the house slides on rollers to another station where workers add interior walls, insulation and the roof.
Even when companies need to increase production levels, most are likely to add very few workers as they have learned to get along with less.
About 6, 000 airmen are stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, but when you add civilian federal workers and contract personnel, the size of the workforce there swells fourfold.
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If you add in those workers who have been compelled to work part time because they can't find full-time work or those who have quit looking, the unemployment rate actually rose to 16.8 percent, says Peter Morici, an economics professor at the University of Maryland.
Layoffs of public workers will add more pressure to the larger American job creation conundrum.
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The pickup in new home construction should add 250, 000 workers to employment rolls a year hence.
Home health aides are expected to add 706, 300 workers, while personal care aides will grow by 607, 000.
If a firm fails a test, it must either reduce contributions made by highly paid employees or add money to other workers' accounts.
Obamacare promises to add millions of healthcare workers to the proverbial government payroll, and once reliant on the government for their earnings, it will become easier for unions to unionize healthcare workers.
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He also said Goard, who initially rejected the applications because the voters failed to include their registration numbers as required by law, broke the state election code by allowing only Republican Party workers to add those numbers to the applications so the voters could receive the ballots.
The earnings of government employee unions grow when they can boost the pay of the workers they represent, not to mention add new individuals to the growing list of government workers who pay union dues.
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The health care and social assistance sector is expected to add 5.6 million workers from 2010 to 2020.
In this case, increases in nominal compensation would not translate into increased purchasing power for workers but would add to inflation pressures.
The county council said it would add security doors and make lone workers have regular contact with guards.
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The job losses add to the grim news for workers at companies from the Conwy Valley to Wrexham in the past few weeks.
Hiring can boost consumer spending, which accounts for a large chunk of U.S. economic output, so if private sector employers start to regularly add more than 200, 000 workers each month this spring, as Shepherdson expects, it would bode well for a pickup in growth.
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If the people of Luxembourg had a low value add then they would be poor world workers, not rich.
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The more that these companies lay off older workers, the more they add to the burden of pensions and health-care costs.
Between them, workers' and employers' contributions add up to a hefty 35% of wages.
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It allowed you to add equipment and boost output and hire new workers right here in Fort Madison.
When inflation is taken into account, the freeze will add up to a pay cut for council workers, unions say.
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