Economy
December 8, 2013
Net Job Creation Has Best Goods Producing Result Since February
Written by Peter Wright
Net job creation in November 2013 was 203,000 of which 159,000 were service providing and 44,000 were goods producing. This was the best goods producing result since February this year. Since February 2010, manufacturing has added 554,000 jobs and construction 329,000. In November the private sector added 196,000 jobs and government added 7,000. Of the goods producing, 27,000 were in manufacturing and 17,000 in construction (Table 1).
