To drive job creation, U.S. businesses, governments and educators should focus on master blueprints, especially after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently revealed that the jobless rate in June remained at 8.2 percent, according to ManpowerGroup.
As the U.S. private sector added 80,000 new jobs in June, May's jobs figure was modified from 69,000 to 77,000, and more than half of June's job growth was created by professional and business services by adding 47,000 jobs with temporary workers making up 25,000 of this sector's increase.
"We remain in a unique long period of unemployment and underemployment during which skills requirements are moving fast," says Jeffrey A. Joerres, ManpowerGroup chairman and CEO. "We still have demand, but employers face heaping amounts of uncertainty that stems from what's happening with Europe, China, Obamacare, the upcoming U.S. general election, etc."
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