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The health care industry continues to add jobs, according to today's BLS report, but at a rate that is modest compared to growth rates in recent years. According to the BLS' Employment Situation, the health care sector gained 16,800 jobs in April.
WANTED reported in March that the decline in new job ads might push the total employment change in the health care sector into negative territory. Although that has not occurred yet, overall demand for health care workers remains weak.
In March we saw a small decline in hospital jobs, which was the first employment decline for hospitals since June 2004.
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