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(snip)" Meanwhile, May's help-wanted ad index fell to a 49-year low, the Conference Board reported Thursday.
The index fell to 27 from 29, the lowest since August 1958. The index was at 33 a year ago. "The labor market is slow and might even slow a little further this summer," said Ken Goldstein, an economist for the Conference Board, a private research organization. Payroll growth could slow to about 100,000 per month from 120,000, Goldstein said. Job-opening advertisements fell in six of the nine regions over the past three months. "(snip)



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