Rasmussen Employment Index Continues Steady Rise
The Rasmussen Employment Index posts its largest single-month gain in over a year and reaches its highest level since September 2008 for the third straight month.
At 84.0, November's index is up six points from last month and 18 points from the beginning of 2010. The index, which measures confidence of workers in the employment market, is also up 16 points from a year ago.
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The survey of 8,730 working Americans was conducted in November 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 1 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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