Employment has risen by more than 300, 000 over the year.

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As female employment has risen and divorce become acceptable, there are probably fewer people who feel like that among middle-aged and older women, the groups that have seen the sharpest falls in suicide rates.

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It is quite likely that in the past couple of years absolute levels of poverty have decreased, simply because employment has risen, while relative poverty has not, because economic growth has meant big increases in income for some at the top.

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Private employment has actually risen by 562, 000 since the final quarter of 2009 - an increase of 2.5%.

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Electricity consumption has risen sharply, and manufacturing employment has edged up.

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For the world as a whole, the percentage of employment in the service industry has risen from 33.6 per cent in 1991 to 43.8 per cent in 2008.

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The share of the employed now on federal, state and local payrolls has risen sharply since 2008, but only because private employment has plunged.

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Within professional and business services, employment in temporary help services continued to trend up and has risen by 495, 000 since a recent low in September 2009.

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Household and corporate savings have risen sharply, while the flip-side of the poor employment outlook is that US productivity has taken off.

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