<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of CNN at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/05/news/economy/november-jobs-report/index.html?hpt=hp_t2">http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/05/news/economy/november-jobs-report/index.html?hpt=hp_t2</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 30px; font-family: Lato, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(21, 21, 21);">2014 is best year for job gains since 1999</h1></div><div><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 28px; font-size: 21px; font-family: Lato, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><img src="cid:BBC5205B-0A0B-4084-8C25-3B3D27955858" alt="image1.png" id="BBC5205B-0A0B-4084-8C25-3B3D27955858"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Labor/Job_Growth_1113_1114.jpg">http://www.moscowcares.com/Labor/Job_Growth_1113_1114.jpg</a></h2><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 28px; font-size: 21px; font-family: Lato, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Hiring surged in November as employers added 321,000 jobs, crowning 2014 as the strongest year for job growth since 1999.</h2></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The unemployment rate remained steady at 5.8%, according the government report released Friday. That's down from 7% this time last year.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hiring blew out the consensus forecast from economists surveyed by CNNMoney, who expected a gain of 228,000 jobs. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The U.S. economy has been gaining an average of 224,000 jobs a month over the past year. Any month with job gains over 200,000 is considered strong. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="inStoryHeading" style="margin: 6px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://wp.me/p4w94-4e1" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Share your story: Have you found a better paying job recently?</a></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Americans found employment in a wide array of industries. Professional and business services added 86,000 positions, with particularly strong hiring in accounting and book keeping. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Retail trade employment rose by 50,000, thanks largely to increased hiring by car dealerships and clothing stores. Many companies added more payrolls this fall, anticipating a stronger holiday shopping season. <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wal-Mart</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(<span class="inlink_chart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/img/7.0/main/GlobalSprite_2x.png); background-size: 612px 360px; position: relative;"><a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=WMT&source=story_quote_link" class="inlink" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">WMT</a></span>)</span> added 10% more <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/18/news/companies/walmart-holiday-hiring/?iid=EL" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">seasonal staffers</a> than last year, while <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kohl's</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(<span class="inlink_chart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/img/7.0/main/GlobalSprite_2x.png); background-size: 612px 360px; position: relative;"><a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=KSS&source=story_quote_link" class="inlink" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">KSS</a></span>)</span> hired 34% more. <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">UPS</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(<span class="inlink_chart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/img/7.0/main/GlobalSprite_2x.png); background-size: 612px 360px; position: relative;"><a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=UPS&source=story_quote_link" class="inlink" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">UPS</a></span>)</span> and <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FedEx</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(<span class="inlink_chart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/img/7.0/main/GlobalSprite_2x.png); background-size: 612px 360px; position: relative;"><a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=FDX&source=story_quote_link" class="inlink" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">FDX</a></span>)</span> are also augmenting their ranks more than last year. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/04/investing/fedex-delivery-holiday-cheer/index.html?iid=SF_INV_River" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"><span class="inStoryHeading" style="margin: 6px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Related: FedEx is the new Santa Claus</font></span></a></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Encouraging signs: </strong>Many employers are putting out the "Help Wanted" sign. Take Sitel, a global customer service outsourcing firm headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sitel is so busy fielding its clients' customer inquiries that it is adding 5,700 jobs in the U.S. to the roughly 13,000 positions it has now. Nearly all the domestic jobs are full-time with benefits, Erickson said. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="inStoryHeading" style="margin: 6px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/03/news/economy/2-gas/index.html?iid=SF_E_River" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Related: For some, gas has fallen below $2</a></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Looking ahead to 2015, Erickson expects to continue adding staff.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I don't see any slowdown," he said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Young workers still struggle: </strong>While hiring is picking up, many of the jobs aren't high-paying ones. <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/08/pf/millennials-credit-cards/?iid=EL" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Millennials</a>, in particular, have lost ground, according to a new <a href="http://younginvincibles.org/issues/jobs/where-do-young-adults-work/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">report</a> from the Young Invincibles, an advocacy group for that generation. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/10/pf/millennials-negative-savings/?iid=EL" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"><span class="inStoryHeading" style="margin: 6px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Related: Millennials aren't saving a dime</font></span></a></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Median annual wages have fallen in nearly all of the most popular industry sectors that employ 25 to 34-year-olds over the past decade. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In retail and wholesale trade, which employs the largest share of these older <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/11/pf/millennials-debt/?iid=EL" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Millennials</a>, median wages plummeted 15% to $25,000. Wages in the leisure and hospitality industry fell 5% to $18,000. Only healthcare, the second most popular field, saw wages grow, albeit by a paltry 2% to $30,000. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"They are not finding the jobs they need to set them up for their long-term financial future," said Konrad Mugglestone, co-author of the report. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Workers over 35 also saw wages fall in many industries, but the declines were not as steep. </span></p></div><div>--------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>