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When the government announces its latest monthly unemployment report on Friday, it’s a safe bet that the data will include another uptick in the number of health-care jobs.<\/p>\nWhen the government announces its latest monthly unemployment report on Friday, it’s a safe bet that the data will include another uptick in the number of health-care jobs.<\/p>\n
(Update: The latest BLS employment data<\/a> Friday made it official, showing the health-care sector adding 21,500 jobs in December. Doctors\u0092 offices added 8,900 jobs and home health-care services grew by 8,000 slots. Here’s the overview story from WSJ<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n That’s pretty much a no-brainer considering the health-care sector added 381,000<\/a> jobs in 2007 and another 372,000<\/a> in 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. With the gains in the first 11 months of 2009, health care has expanded by more than 600,000<\/a> since the recession’s start in December 2007.<\/p>\n We won’t venture a guess at what December’s official numbers will show. You can look at what our colleagues at Real Time Economics<\/a> said today if you want a peak at the overall jobs situation. <\/p>\n On the health-care front, online help-wanted data <\/a>out today from the Conference Board showed demand increased the most in December for health-care practitioner and technical jobs. The business research group said that “advertised vacancies for healthcare practitioners or technical occupations outnumbered the unemployed looking for work in this field by almost 3 to 1,” citing November data.<\/p>\n The industry’s hiring wave is far from over. A report on NPR<\/a> this morning notes BLS statistics that more than three million health-care jobs of all types will be added by 2018, including 581,500 registered nurses and almost 461,000 home health aides.<\/p>\n Image: iStockphoto<\/em><\/p>\n When the government announces its latest monthly unemployment report on Friday, it’s a safe bet that the data will include another uptick in the number of health-care jobs. (Update: The latest BLS employment data Friday made it official, showing the health-care sector adding 21,500 jobs in December. Doctors\u0092 offices added 8,900 jobs and home health-care […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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