A Gallup survey that tracks jobs creation found that, after a spike during 2013, jobs creation leveled off in May and has remained at a plateau ever since.
Gallup uses a jobs creation index based on companies that are hiring, ones that aren't, and ones that are letting people go, to track the trend.
During the depths of the recession, only a quarter of respondents said their companies were hiring. That increased to 41 percent in August — just above the 40 percent who said their companies were not hiring. Meantime, the percent of those letting people go sits at 13 percent — the lowest since pre-recession times.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
