St. Louis area adds 18,200 jobs
From The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Tuesday, Jun. 26 2007By David Nicklaus
St. Louis%u2019 winning streak in the job market continued in May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says. Preliminary figures show the metro area adding 18,200 jobs between May 2006 and May 2007, for growth of 1.3 percent. That leaves St. Louis just a shade below the national job market, which grew by 1.4 percent in the same 12-month span.
The local jobs total has been rising now for 34 consecutive months. We%u2019ve added nearly 50,000 jobs in the past three years, after losing roughly 30,000 jobs during the 2001 recession and the %u201Cjobless recovery%u201D that followed.
