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Payroll employment and job openings rate continued to grow in 2006
Kimberly Riley
Economist, Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
E-mail: Riley.Kimberly@bls.gov
Emily Lloyd
Supervisory Economist, Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
E-mail: Lloyd.Emily@bls.gov
Natalie Propst
Economist, Formerly in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Payroll employment grew by 2.3 million over the year; the job openings rate climbed in the second half of the year, while the hires and separations rates held steady.
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