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WASHINGTON Cheap New York Mets Jersey , July 3 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. employers picked up the pace of hiring in June significantly while unemployment rate dropped to an almost six-year low, a sign that the world's largest economy is on track to bounce back from the weather-related contraction in the first quarter.
The nonfarm payroll employment increased by 288,000 in June, posting the fifth consecutive month with job gains above 200,000, much higher than economists' expectation of 215,000. The unemployment rate declined from 6.3 percent to 6.1 percent, the lowest level since September 2008 Cheap Minnesota Twins Jersey , the Labor Department said Thursday.
"This is the first time since September 1999-January 2000 we have seen total job growth above 200,000 for five straight months, " Jason Furman, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said in a statement following the jobs report.
"In addition, the 1.4 million jobs added in the first half of this year are the most in any first half since 1999," he added.
In June, almost every major industry added jobs Cheap Milwaukee Brewers Jersey , led by professional and business services, retail trade, food service and health care, the Labor Department said.
Employment in professional and business services rose by 67,000, and retail trade added 40,000 jobs over the month. Meanwhile, manufacturing employment edged up by 16 Cheap Miami Marlins Jersey ,000, while construction sector added 6,000.
The labor force participation rate, the gauge for people either working or seeking jobs, stayed at 62.8 percent for the third consecutive month. Still, it was significantly below the 66 percent level that prevailed before the recession.
The number of long-term unemployed, or those jobless for at least 27 weeks, declined by 293 Cheap Los Angeles Dodgers Jersey ,000 in June to 3.1 million, accounting for 32.8 percent of the unemployed.
Average hourly earnings rose by six cents to 24.45 U.S. dollars in June. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have risen by 2 percent, basically in line with consumer price inflation.
After revision, employment gains in April and May were 29,000 higher than previously reported. In the second quarter, job growth has averaged 272,000 per month Cheap Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Jersey , higher than the average monthly gain of 203,000 over the past year.
Economic Policy Institute economist Heidi Shierholz cautioned that although this is a strong jobs report, the economy still faces "a huge hole" in the labor market. "Even if we saw June's rate of job growth every month from here on out, we still wouldn't get back to health in the labor market for another two and a half years."
But the strengthening job market confirms the Federal Reserve's view that the U.S. economy will gain momentum and bounce back after unexpectedly shrinking at an annual rate of 2.9 percent in the first quarter largely because of a brutally cold winter.
The central bank is on track to continue trimming its bond purchase program and end it by the end of this year. Most analysts predict that the Fed will wait until mid-2015 to start raising its benchmark short-term interest rates despite an improving economy.
SHIJIAZHUANG, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Pang Zhankui never expected he and his family could have a flush toilet at home, which finally enabled them to get rid of the latrine pit haunted by flies and mosquitos.
"No more dirty pits and no more stinky smells. All we have to do is push the flush button," said Pang, a 65-year-old farmer in Cangfang Village Cheap Kansas City Royals Jersey , Gaoyi County in north China's Hebei Province.
Pang's family is among the 120,000 households who had their pit toilets replaced by flush toilets this year as part of a provincial campaign echoing a national call to improve the living environment in rural areas.
China has a rural population of 650 million. Farmers have benefited from the country's opening up, reform, and preferential policies in past decades, which have allowed them to feed themselves and have their health insurance covered. They enjoy almost the same advanced home appliances as urban people do in their daily lives.
However, the living environment in rural areas still lags behind that of cities.
Farmers suffer from dirty pit toilets, garbage and waste water near their houses because of poor infrastructure and loose management in rural areas.
"We used to throw kitchen leftovers and other garbage into the pigsty in the yard, but in recent years Cheap Houston Astros Jersey , when we quit raising pigs, we had nowhere to discard the garbage," said Feng Yuezeng, a farmer from the Nanlangtou Village of Luancheng County, Shijiazhuang City.
In a rural environment improvement campaign, the Hebei provincial government spent 6.57 billion yuan (1.08 billion U.S. dollars) this year on garbage disposal in 50,000 villages in the province. More than 120,000 workers have been hired at an annual cost of 270 million yuan to collect the trash in villages and deliver it to garbage power plants nearby.
According to figures from the Ministry of Agriculture Cheap Detroit Tigers Jersey , annual household garbage in the country's rural areas has reached 300 million tonnes, with 94 percent of its 60 million tonnes of waste water discharged haphazardly
At the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) held in November 2012, the CPC aimed to build a "moderately prosperous society" by 2020, featuring sustained and sound economic development, expanded democracy, improved soft power, and increased living standards and environment.
In October this year, President Xi Jinping called on local governments to learn from Zhejiang Province to improve living conditions in rural areas.
Zhejiang Cheap Colorado Rockies Jersey , located on China's eastern coast, launched a project in 2003 to renovate houses and living facilities in the countryside, improve rural design and planning, and enhance the rural ecological and human environment.
Zhang Baoqiang, director with the leadership office on countryside appearance innovation in Hebei, said the unfavorable living environment in rural areas is an extreme weak . |
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