Wall Street Journal Examines How Health Care Sector Has Become ‘Employer Of Last Resort’

Health care “has emerged as the employer of last resort,” as the number of manufacturing jobs declines nationally, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the Journal, there were 48,000 fewer manufacturing jobs in March and 310,000 fewer over the past 12 months, while the number of health care jobs increased by 23,000 in March and by 363,000 over the past 12 months.

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Filed under: Public Health on April 17th, 2008