Job market has a silver lining

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Two industries will see growth in 2009 – education and health services, and government, according to an article in USA Today.

Education and health services which includes office, medical labs, ambulatory, nursing and residential care are expected to see a growth of more than 2 percent in six states; Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Indiana and the District of Columbia; 14 states will see more than a 1 percent growth while another 13 are expected to see at least a 1 percent growth, according to Moody’s Economy.com, an economic consulting firm.

Government jobs also are expected to see an increase in jobs – 33 states and the District of Columbia should see at least 1 percent to more than 2 percent of growth in 2009.

An article on Who's hiring on Yahoo!News agreed.

— The government: The U.S. Customs Department needs to fill 11,000 jobs, said Joseph A. Arata, assistant director National Recruitment Division of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Arata said 8,000 of those jobs are frontline uniform officers of which 4,000 will help patrol the U.S. border the other 3,000 are mission operation support positions.

EPI's first federal partner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will have a signing ceremony April 14 to coincide with the Initiative's first anniversary.

Arata said it's a partnership that makes sense.

"We are a unique employee partner – we share the Army Reserve's mission – to protect the country," Arata said.

— Census Bureau: The national "once-a-decade" head count coming in 2010, the Census Bureau is hiring thousands of temporary part-time workers.

— Unemployment offices: Nope, that’s not a typo —the place where you pick up a check for being unemployed needs people to hand out those checks. Unemployment offices across the nation are being overwhelmed by the waves of layoffs. Pennsylvania, Washington and Rhode Island are hiring hundreds of temporary and full-time workers statewide to help with the crush. Check your state office to see if its office is hiring.

The job crisis has become a bipartisan issue.

A Pew Research Center poll showed 76 percent of Democrats and 72 percent of Republicans now rate jobs as a national priority.

However, a great deal of the predicted growth hinges on the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. President Obama's administration economists estimate the stimulus bill will create or save 3.5 million jobs.

The White House economic team concluded the spending from the stimulus package would directly create nearly 1.5 million jobs by the end of the fourth quarter of 2010. It also determined the indirect effects — the pass-along benefits of newly employed workers spending more — would create more than 2.2 million jobs. Included are 305,000 in direct energy jobs and 166,000 in direct health care jobs. Those jobs would, in turn, indirectly produce another 230,000 jobs, according to the analysis.

Find out how the stimulus bill will help your state.

Of course that's after more layoffs are announced predicted Moody's Economy.com, Monday.

In its forecast Moody's Economy.com anticipates a gloomy 2009 with more than 95 percent of U.S. cities ending the year with fewer jobs. Nationwide, employers are expected to cut 2.7 million jobs this year after eliminating more than 2 million positions in 2008.

Companies started cutting jobs early this year.

Employers cut 598,000 jobs in January, the most since 1974, the Labor Department reported Feb. 6. The unemployment rate rose to 7.6 percent, the highest since December 1974. More than 11.6 million people were unemployed last month, up 54 percent from a year earlier and the most since December 1982.

This is why it’s more important than ever for the Army Reserve to help Soldiers navigate the ever shrinking job market.

The Employer Partnership Initiative helps Soldiers identify available positions with military-friendly employers. The program saves the companies between $100 and $1,000 in recruiting costs and it saves the Soldier money by offering free resume guidance, personal counseling, and access to a national job search engine.

The rebound is expected to continue into 2011.

Another consulting firm, HIS Global Insight predicts the modest recovery in 2010 will be followed by "a more robust recovery in 2011."

Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at HIS Globel Insight, cited four positive factors: falling food and fuel prices; swift and coordinated responses from governments to the crisis and any aftershocks; and massive amounts of liquidity pumped into the system already by central banks – with more to come and further fiscal stimulus.

"Yes, the recession will be deep, but the recovery is also likely to be strong," Behravesh said.

Nevada, New Mexico and Texas are expected to have the strongest job growth from the end of 2008 until the end of 2012, when President Obama will be up for re-election.

Overall, U.S. employers are expected to boost jobs by an average of 1.3 percent each year during that time, according to Moody's Economy.com.