Although CEO confidence improved during the first quarter in 2012, it fell from 63 to 47 in the second quarter, according to the Conference Board Measure of CEO Confidence.

U.S. hiring gains are expected to be slow in July 2012 in comparison to this time in 2011, according to a report from the Society for Human Resource Management.

Although there are risks from the European sovereign debt crisis and the "fiscal cliff" confronting the federal government, the U.S. economy is expected to expand over the next year, according to Bloomberg BNA's midyear economic outlook.

More hiring is expected during the third quarter for commercial and light industrial jobs, according to a recent hiring trends survey by Express Employment Professionals, a privately held staffing company.

The U.S. Department of Labor is distributing 90 grants of more than $20 million, which are being awarded through the DOLs Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program, for job training and support services for more than 11,000 veterans.

Although revenue figures are down, U.S. small businesses are experiencing higher employment numbers, average compensation and hours worked, according to the Small Business Employment and Revenue Indexes by Intuit Inc.

Over the last year, industrial employment in Georgia has increased 0.5 percent, according to the 2013 Georgia Manufacturers Register, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers' News Inc. in Evanston, Ill.

Workers confidence in the economy fell to 51.1, marking its third consecutive dip in overall confidence levels, according to Randstad's latest Employee Confidence Index.