There's a Lot More Hiring Going on Than You Might Think

In a recent Trendlines magazine article, Lecia Parks Langston talks about the fluidity of the labor market and new hire data from the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) program. She writes:

Guess how many people were hired during the worst quarter of the "Great Recession" in Utah?  Go ahead and take a guess.  Well, you most likely guesstimated low.  Almost 127,000 Utah workers found a new job in the first quarter of 2010.  In other words, almost 12 percent of the jobs tracked by the LED system were held by a "new hire."  And, that's the worst quarter.  These figures appear even more remarkable over time.  New hires averaged more than 200,000 per quarter between 2007 and 2010.

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