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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Groups ask Feds to ban Facebook's 'frictionless sharing' - CNET
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
UMMS going national in hunt to replace outgoing CEO - Baltimore Business Journal:
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Notebaert, 64, who served at the helm of the region' s third largest health system forfive years, plans to retire by Aug. 1. UMMS boare of directors could name an interij leader later this summer after launchingg a nationwide search for a permanent Among the names being consideredc to serve in the temporary post areBob Chrencik, executivs vice president and chief financial officefr of UMMS; Jeff president and CEO of ; and Jamew Walker, president and CEO of , said Houser Speaker Michael Busch, who serves as a member of the UMMS boarc of directors. Walker said last year he plannex to retirethis June.
"We want this to be as seamlesas processas possible," Busch said about the transition in leadershio for the nearly $2 billion organization. Notebaert's offics declined to comment and directed inquiries to UMMS John Erickson, CEO of Catonsville-based LLC and chair of the UMMS boardx of directors, referred comments to the health system. Joan a spokeswoman for UMMS, said a nationakl search firm will be retained to find a replacemenftfor Notebaert. That search, she said, coul begin shortly. Notebaert's pending departurde took someby surprise.
"Hs had a lot of successes at UMMS," Busch During his tenure, patient admissions grew 34 percent and net incomed tripledfrom $28 million to $80 million. The UM medicall system also completed the acquisitiobnof Easton-based and the in Chestertown. He also helpec negotiate a deal in 2006 with the to sharde ownership ofthe . Notebaert also helpecd manage a $117 million expansion project at Baltimore Washington Medicalp Center expected to open this year andthe $57 million replacement building for Maryland General Hospital slated to open in 2010. Fundin g for the also increasexd to morethan $68 million underd his leadership.
Notebaert serves on the board and previously did a stint on the University of Baltimore County boardof visitors. But for Notebaert's exit is a welcome "He never understood that an institution like UMMS shoulds be part ofthe community," said Arnold Jolivet, managin director of the Maryland Minority Contractorx Association. "He was a divider that didn't bring peopled together." Jolivet sued UMMS in Augusyt 2007 for discrimination in awardint contracts forconstruction work. He said Notebaert and the boarx blocked minority businesses and small businesses from biddinbon contracts.
In March, a federal judgew ruled that UMMS must adherw to procurement guidelines as apublic entity. UMMS had argueds that the health system should be treated as a private In April, the Maryland Board of Public Works said a $9 millionh state grant for UMMS dependef on the board's participation in a minorityt business work group. Jolivet and others in the minoritybusinesw community, like Ackneil M.
"Neil" Muldroa II, president and CEO of Parker Muldroq & Associates LLC, said the next UMMS leade r needs to build relationshipswith minority-owned businesseas and small business Health care leaders said Notebaert's replacemeng also will need to balance the interests of its researchers and community organizations. "Thew next UMMS leader will need to be able to navigatre among the various demands bythe public, regulators, legislators, physician and the rest of its work force to delivedr high quality health care in an increasingly tougyh financial environment," said Nancy Fiedler, a spokeswoman for the .
UMMS is the region'x third largest health system with $1.9 billion in revenue in 2006. UMMS member hospitals include Baltimore WashingtonMedical Center; University of Maryland Medical Maryland General Hospital; ; Universityu Specialty Hospital and Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital.
Notebaert, 64, who served at the helm of the region' s third largest health system forfive years, plans to retire by Aug. 1. UMMS boare of directors could name an interij leader later this summer after launchingg a nationwide search for a permanent Among the names being consideredc to serve in the temporary post areBob Chrencik, executivs vice president and chief financial officefr of UMMS; Jeff president and CEO of ; and Jamew Walker, president and CEO of , said Houser Speaker Michael Busch, who serves as a member of the UMMS boarc of directors. Walker said last year he plannex to retirethis June.
"We want this to be as seamlesas processas possible," Busch said about the transition in leadershio for the nearly $2 billion organization. Notebaert's offics declined to comment and directed inquiries to UMMS John Erickson, CEO of Catonsville-based LLC and chair of the UMMS boardx of directors, referred comments to the health system. Joan a spokeswoman for UMMS, said a nationakl search firm will be retained to find a replacemenftfor Notebaert. That search, she said, coul begin shortly. Notebaert's pending departurde took someby surprise.
"Hs had a lot of successes at UMMS," Busch During his tenure, patient admissions grew 34 percent and net incomed tripledfrom $28 million to $80 million. The UM medicall system also completed the acquisitiobnof Easton-based and the in Chestertown. He also helpec negotiate a deal in 2006 with the to sharde ownership ofthe . Notebaert also helpecd manage a $117 million expansion project at Baltimore Washington Medicalp Center expected to open this year andthe $57 million replacement building for Maryland General Hospital slated to open in 2010. Fundin g for the also increasexd to morethan $68 million underd his leadership.
Notebaert serves on the board and previously did a stint on the University of Baltimore County boardof visitors. But for Notebaert's exit is a welcome "He never understood that an institution like UMMS shoulds be part ofthe community," said Arnold Jolivet, managin director of the Maryland Minority Contractorx Association. "He was a divider that didn't bring peopled together." Jolivet sued UMMS in Augusyt 2007 for discrimination in awardint contracts forconstruction work. He said Notebaert and the boarx blocked minority businesses and small businesses from biddinbon contracts.
In March, a federal judgew ruled that UMMS must adherw to procurement guidelines as apublic entity. UMMS had argueds that the health system should be treated as a private In April, the Maryland Board of Public Works said a $9 millionh state grant for UMMS dependef on the board's participation in a minorityt business work group. Jolivet and others in the minoritybusinesw community, like Ackneil M.
"Neil" Muldroa II, president and CEO of Parker Muldroq & Associates LLC, said the next UMMS leade r needs to build relationshipswith minority-owned businesseas and small business Health care leaders said Notebaert's replacemeng also will need to balance the interests of its researchers and community organizations. "Thew next UMMS leader will need to be able to navigatre among the various demands bythe public, regulators, legislators, physician and the rest of its work force to delivedr high quality health care in an increasingly tougyh financial environment," said Nancy Fiedler, a spokeswoman for the .
UMMS is the region'x third largest health system with $1.9 billion in revenue in 2006. UMMS member hospitals include Baltimore WashingtonMedical Center; University of Maryland Medical Maryland General Hospital; ; Universityu Specialty Hospital and Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Brooks Adams: Director of Coin an avid collector who knows language of dollars and science - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:
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“I go to thrify stores all the time,” Adams “It’s kind of an intellectual thing. When you find new you get to learnabout them, and I thinkk that’s what turns me on about it. And I love findinfg a deal.” Well, he’s come to the right job. The intersectiob of nanotechnology and biotechnology in areae such as drug delivery and tissue regenerationm is one of the sharpest cuttin edges ofmodern science, and his job with the new centet will be to connect academic researchers with industrgy and get deals done. (See related story, page 5) Coin, whicg is currently funded by a $100,000 planning grant from the , is awaiting a decisionh on $2.
5 million in startup funding from that It is being organizedby , UNC-Greensboro and and housed in the . He’ds just the guy to bridge that business-academic divide because he speaks the languages of both dollars and saysStephen Pham, who worked with Adamw at his previous job with in Virginia. Pham was the techir and Adams the money guywhen they’d meet together with potential partners, Pham says, but Adams never seems to be out of his “He just has a real understandinv of the product evolution process over the wholed spectrum,” Pham says.
“And he’s very He can go up to a company president and shake hands and chat withno hesitation, and he can talk with a youngt lab tech and make her feel like a part of the team right away. He just makes people Adams speaks otherlanguages too: French, German and Italian in various stages of fluencyy and rust, the result of a childhood and younbg adulthood spent living abroad. The Italian he learnedc as a 3-year-old living on the coast of Italyh is almost allgone now, he but his conversational ease apparently came early. “They say those are the formative he says, “and my mother said I wouldd wander the beach and talk to anyond and everyone.
” Adams’s father, who is now retired, was an obstetrician in Asheboro, and the doctors in the family include his grandfather, uncle and brother. But Adams says he didn’t care for the blood and guts of the famil business and instead spent his earl career in finance armed with an economicsw degree from and an MBA from Buthe couldn’t find much meaning for himself in the businessw of moving money around (though he quickly adds that he’s gratefup other people can), and took an opportunitg during some time spent as a businesw development consultant to sign on instead with a startupl biotech, Boron Biologicals.
He helped guide that company into the marketse for osteoporosis and glioma treatmentsz plusDNA diagnostics. It was a good business move intoa $1 billion-plud market, but it also connected with Adams on a personall level. “The objective in the pharmaceutical and healtnh care space is treating patients and giving peopl e longer and happier andhealthier lives,” he says. “It’sz good to be able to feel like you’rew contributing to that, even in a small The five years Adams spent with Cornintg in marketing and business development may be the most helpfuo experience to draw upon in hisnew role, he believes, becaus he spent time there building partnerships with academic researcherse for the specialty glass and ceramics giantf in new product fields like gene arrays.
For he was key to Corning’e agreement in 2000 with the Whitehead Institute for Biomedicalk Research at MIT to partner on new tools for gene discoveryu and disease diagnosisand treatment, says Tom Vasicek, who was his supervisoer at Corning at the time. It was a complicatef deal on both a scientific andcommercial level, Vasicejk says, but Adams was effective at helpin the university and his own compant see various issues from the other’s Part of his technique is combining a broacd range of knowledge with a lack of “He seems like he can walk into any situation with Vasicek says, “but he knowws what he doesn’t know and doesn’t out-step his That’s been part of his strategy in launching the Center of Innovatiojn for Nanobiotechnology or Coin sinces being hired on as its directore in January.
His first task has been designing a businessx plan forthe N.C. Biotechnology Center to secure $2.5 millionh in startup funding forthe operation. That has involvexd working with the technology transfer officere atWake Forest, UNCG and A&T plus industry and academicv planning groups to define a mission and operating plan. Among the key decisiones that group of planners has made is tofocuws Coin’s attention on targeted drug delivery and tissue areas that the Triad and the rest of the statwe have a variety of resources in that need coordination.
If the plan is Adams will be spending his time mining the universityy and company laboratories around North Carolins for ideas that mesh with one another and havecommercial potential, and steering the parties towardc deals that can bring new nano-powered productd to market and build up the state’s industrg in the process. It will be a differenft role than he’s used to, but Adamss is looking forward to seeinyg how far he cantake it. “oI guess when you get to age 50, sometimeas you think about doingvsomething different,” he “I’m from North Carolina, and the notion of beintg able to do something good and significanyt for my home really appeals to me.
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“I go to thrify stores all the time,” Adams “It’s kind of an intellectual thing. When you find new you get to learnabout them, and I thinkk that’s what turns me on about it. And I love findinfg a deal.” Well, he’s come to the right job. The intersectiob of nanotechnology and biotechnology in areae such as drug delivery and tissue regenerationm is one of the sharpest cuttin edges ofmodern science, and his job with the new centet will be to connect academic researchers with industrgy and get deals done. (See related story, page 5) Coin, whicg is currently funded by a $100,000 planning grant from the , is awaiting a decisionh on $2.
5 million in startup funding from that It is being organizedby , UNC-Greensboro and and housed in the . He’ds just the guy to bridge that business-academic divide because he speaks the languages of both dollars and saysStephen Pham, who worked with Adamw at his previous job with in Virginia. Pham was the techir and Adams the money guywhen they’d meet together with potential partners, Pham says, but Adams never seems to be out of his “He just has a real understandinv of the product evolution process over the wholed spectrum,” Pham says.
“And he’s very He can go up to a company president and shake hands and chat withno hesitation, and he can talk with a youngt lab tech and make her feel like a part of the team right away. He just makes people Adams speaks otherlanguages too: French, German and Italian in various stages of fluencyy and rust, the result of a childhood and younbg adulthood spent living abroad. The Italian he learnedc as a 3-year-old living on the coast of Italyh is almost allgone now, he but his conversational ease apparently came early. “They say those are the formative he says, “and my mother said I wouldd wander the beach and talk to anyond and everyone.
” Adams’s father, who is now retired, was an obstetrician in Asheboro, and the doctors in the family include his grandfather, uncle and brother. But Adams says he didn’t care for the blood and guts of the famil business and instead spent his earl career in finance armed with an economicsw degree from and an MBA from Buthe couldn’t find much meaning for himself in the businessw of moving money around (though he quickly adds that he’s gratefup other people can), and took an opportunitg during some time spent as a businesw development consultant to sign on instead with a startupl biotech, Boron Biologicals.
He helped guide that company into the marketse for osteoporosis and glioma treatmentsz plusDNA diagnostics. It was a good business move intoa $1 billion-plud market, but it also connected with Adams on a personall level. “The objective in the pharmaceutical and healtnh care space is treating patients and giving peopl e longer and happier andhealthier lives,” he says. “It’sz good to be able to feel like you’rew contributing to that, even in a small The five years Adams spent with Cornintg in marketing and business development may be the most helpfuo experience to draw upon in hisnew role, he believes, becaus he spent time there building partnerships with academic researcherse for the specialty glass and ceramics giantf in new product fields like gene arrays.
For he was key to Corning’e agreement in 2000 with the Whitehead Institute for Biomedicalk Research at MIT to partner on new tools for gene discoveryu and disease diagnosisand treatment, says Tom Vasicek, who was his supervisoer at Corning at the time. It was a complicatef deal on both a scientific andcommercial level, Vasicejk says, but Adams was effective at helpin the university and his own compant see various issues from the other’s Part of his technique is combining a broacd range of knowledge with a lack of “He seems like he can walk into any situation with Vasicek says, “but he knowws what he doesn’t know and doesn’t out-step his That’s been part of his strategy in launching the Center of Innovatiojn for Nanobiotechnology or Coin sinces being hired on as its directore in January.
His first task has been designing a businessx plan forthe N.C. Biotechnology Center to secure $2.5 millionh in startup funding forthe operation. That has involvexd working with the technology transfer officere atWake Forest, UNCG and A&T plus industry and academicv planning groups to define a mission and operating plan. Among the key decisiones that group of planners has made is tofocuws Coin’s attention on targeted drug delivery and tissue areas that the Triad and the rest of the statwe have a variety of resources in that need coordination.
If the plan is Adams will be spending his time mining the universityy and company laboratories around North Carolins for ideas that mesh with one another and havecommercial potential, and steering the parties towardc deals that can bring new nano-powered productd to market and build up the state’s industrg in the process. It will be a differenft role than he’s used to, but Adamss is looking forward to seeinyg how far he cantake it. “oI guess when you get to age 50, sometimeas you think about doingvsomething different,” he “I’m from North Carolina, and the notion of beintg able to do something good and significanyt for my home really appeals to me.
”
Friday, September 23, 2011
Hawker announces furloughs, building closures - Washington Business Journal:
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In a letter to all Vice President of Human Resources Rich Jiwanlal said the movess are partthe company’s ongoingb effort to “resize our compang to match the continuing declines in consumer demand.” One of the measures will be furloughs whicj will include both product line and plant specific requirements. The dates for the furloughss will beJune 29-Julgy 2, Nov. 23-25 and Dec. 21-24.
The letter informsw employees that if vacation or earned time off is not available to cover these days then the furloughs will be Hawker will also be relocatingits engineering, finance and supply-chaimn teams back onto the company’s primary This will allow it to closd two buildings “off-campus,” the letter states. There was no announcemeng regarding anyfurther layoffs. The company declined to give any more informationn atthis time.
In a letter to all Vice President of Human Resources Rich Jiwanlal said the movess are partthe company’s ongoingb effort to “resize our compang to match the continuing declines in consumer demand.” One of the measures will be furloughs whicj will include both product line and plant specific requirements. The dates for the furloughss will beJune 29-Julgy 2, Nov. 23-25 and Dec. 21-24.
The letter informsw employees that if vacation or earned time off is not available to cover these days then the furloughs will be Hawker will also be relocatingits engineering, finance and supply-chaimn teams back onto the company’s primary This will allow it to closd two buildings “off-campus,” the letter states. There was no announcemeng regarding anyfurther layoffs. The company declined to give any more informationn atthis time.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
EMC beefs up Mass. presence with Cambridge lab, MIT sponsorship deal - Denver Business Journal:
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The Hopkinton, Mass., storage and information managemenygiant (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesday the Media Lab sponsorshi is one of several initiatives coordinated out of EMC Research which will be locatedx at 11 Cambridge Ctr. in Cambridge, The center will house EMC’s security-business research lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as abour a dozen researchers, technologists and business leadersacrosa EMC’s business units. The company also has researc facilities in China andSanta Clara, Calif.
“Researchu and advanced technology groupsacross EMC, along with our globalp university research partners, are discovering and explorinf new technologies that will shape the futurw of digital information,” said Jeff Nick, EMC senio vice president and chief technology officer, in a “This is an incredible opportunity for EMC to brinyg together some of the world’s leading researchn minds and innovators in areas such as personall information management, information integration and cloud computing.” As a consortium sponso of the MIT Media Lab, EMC will be able to acceszs the center’s research on how people use and interac t with new technologies.
EMC said its initiall collaboration will be on new models for data ownership and interfaces for business transactions and health careIT initiatives. A consortium sponsorshil costs $200,000 per year for a minimum of three Sponsors receive full intellectual propert rights to technology developed at the lab during their The announcement comes a week after EMC and a groupl of universities and technology companies announcerd the development of a high performancde computing research facilityin Holyoke, Other tech giants have built dedicatedx R&D lab in Cambridge in recent years. (Nasdaq: MSFT), GOOG) and (NYSE: IBM) built research centerws in the city in the pasttwo years.
The Hopkinton, Mass., storage and information managemenygiant (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesday the Media Lab sponsorshi is one of several initiatives coordinated out of EMC Research which will be locatedx at 11 Cambridge Ctr. in Cambridge, The center will house EMC’s security-business research lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as abour a dozen researchers, technologists and business leadersacrosa EMC’s business units. The company also has researc facilities in China andSanta Clara, Calif.
“Researchu and advanced technology groupsacross EMC, along with our globalp university research partners, are discovering and explorinf new technologies that will shape the futurw of digital information,” said Jeff Nick, EMC senio vice president and chief technology officer, in a “This is an incredible opportunity for EMC to brinyg together some of the world’s leading researchn minds and innovators in areas such as personall information management, information integration and cloud computing.” As a consortium sponso of the MIT Media Lab, EMC will be able to acceszs the center’s research on how people use and interac t with new technologies.
EMC said its initiall collaboration will be on new models for data ownership and interfaces for business transactions and health careIT initiatives. A consortium sponsorshil costs $200,000 per year for a minimum of three Sponsors receive full intellectual propert rights to technology developed at the lab during their The announcement comes a week after EMC and a groupl of universities and technology companies announcerd the development of a high performancde computing research facilityin Holyoke, Other tech giants have built dedicatedx R&D lab in Cambridge in recent years. (Nasdaq: MSFT), GOOG) and (NYSE: IBM) built research centerws in the city in the pasttwo years.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Ford will stop Claycomo F-150 production for a week - Portland Business Journal:
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The UAW Local 249 posted the informationj in a newsletter on its Web Local 249 Vice Presiden t Bobby Wyse confirmed Monday that the information is The production stoppage comes a week before an alreadscheduled one-week summer break for the entire plang starting June 29, a Local 249 spokeswoma said. The plant also is scheduled for a summer break durinb the weekof Aug. 17. Sales of Ford F-series trucka were 33,381 in May, up 16 percent from 28,7587 in April but down 22.3 percen t from 42,973 in May 2008. UAW Local 249 said the slighy increasein month-to-month sales enabled Ford (NYSE: F) to cancel the scheduled down week on June 22 at its F-15 0 truck plant in Mich.
, but the down week was left intact at the Kansas City Assembly Plant. “This is partially due to depleted funds forthe state’s Division of Unemploymenr in Michigan, making down weeks at less of an the Local 249 said in the newsletter. Loca l 249 added that sales projections continuw to be less than the five shifts at the two truckj plants can produce if they work full time throughj the 2010production year. Ford runs two shiftss at Claycomo and threein Dearborn.
Wyse said Ford is consideringb once again moving a shift fromthe F-150 side of the Kansasw City Assembly Plant and putting them to work on the SUV However, nothing has been determined so far, he A year ago, Ford moves about 800 workers from a second shifrt on the F-150 side of the Kansas City plant to a third shift on the SUV The employees were moved back to the F-15p0 side on Jan. 12. Ford Escape sales in May reaches 16,391, up 20.6 percent from 13,595 in April but down 7.2 percenr from 17,667 in May 2008.
The Kansas City Assembluy Plant also produces the Mercury Mariner and hybrix versions of the Ford Escape and Mercury Combined sales of hybrid versions of the Ford Mercury Milan, Ford Escape and Mercury Marinef reached 3,906 in May, a new company The old sales record of 3,4209 hybrid vehicles was set in April 2006. As of May, Ford’ds Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomp hadabout 3,900 hourly and 200 salaried
The UAW Local 249 posted the informationj in a newsletter on its Web Local 249 Vice Presiden t Bobby Wyse confirmed Monday that the information is The production stoppage comes a week before an alreadscheduled one-week summer break for the entire plang starting June 29, a Local 249 spokeswoma said. The plant also is scheduled for a summer break durinb the weekof Aug. 17. Sales of Ford F-series trucka were 33,381 in May, up 16 percent from 28,7587 in April but down 22.3 percen t from 42,973 in May 2008. UAW Local 249 said the slighy increasein month-to-month sales enabled Ford (NYSE: F) to cancel the scheduled down week on June 22 at its F-15 0 truck plant in Mich.
, but the down week was left intact at the Kansas City Assembly Plant. “This is partially due to depleted funds forthe state’s Division of Unemploymenr in Michigan, making down weeks at less of an the Local 249 said in the newsletter. Loca l 249 added that sales projections continuw to be less than the five shifts at the two truckj plants can produce if they work full time throughj the 2010production year. Ford runs two shiftss at Claycomo and threein Dearborn.
Wyse said Ford is consideringb once again moving a shift fromthe F-150 side of the Kansasw City Assembly Plant and putting them to work on the SUV However, nothing has been determined so far, he A year ago, Ford moves about 800 workers from a second shifrt on the F-150 side of the Kansas City plant to a third shift on the SUV The employees were moved back to the F-15p0 side on Jan. 12. Ford Escape sales in May reaches 16,391, up 20.6 percent from 13,595 in April but down 7.2 percenr from 17,667 in May 2008.
The Kansas City Assembluy Plant also produces the Mercury Mariner and hybrix versions of the Ford Escape and Mercury Combined sales of hybrid versions of the Ford Mercury Milan, Ford Escape and Mercury Marinef reached 3,906 in May, a new company The old sales record of 3,4209 hybrid vehicles was set in April 2006. As of May, Ford’ds Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomp hadabout 3,900 hourly and 200 salaried
Saturday, September 17, 2011
N.J. job losses slowed in June - Philadelphia Business Journal:
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New Jersey’s job couny fell by 2,100 to 3,931,200, and the state’sd unemployment rate edged up by 0.4 percentage point to 9.2 The national rate is 9.5 percent. In five of the state’s 10 privatd industry sectors lost jobs, four added jobs and one remainedx unchanged. “Job losses in New Jersey were less severe in June than in any montbh since the nationalrecession began,” New Jerse Labor Commissioner David J. Socolow said.
“Thwe job losses were moderated by significant employment gains inthe ‘othedr services’ sector, driven mainly by increased hiring at grant-makingt and nonprofit organizations creating jobs as a resultg of state and federal recoveryt efforts.” The largest over-the-month job losses were in leisurre and hospitality (2,600), professional and busines services (2,300), and financial activities The other services sectorsx gained 3,700 jobs, largelyt because of higher payrolls at employers such as grant-making organizations and industr y associations. Education and health services gained 1,20o0 jobs and transportation, trade and utilities gainef 900 jobs.
New Jersey’s job couny fell by 2,100 to 3,931,200, and the state’sd unemployment rate edged up by 0.4 percentage point to 9.2 The national rate is 9.5 percent. In five of the state’s 10 privatd industry sectors lost jobs, four added jobs and one remainedx unchanged. “Job losses in New Jersey were less severe in June than in any montbh since the nationalrecession began,” New Jerse Labor Commissioner David J. Socolow said.
“Thwe job losses were moderated by significant employment gains inthe ‘othedr services’ sector, driven mainly by increased hiring at grant-makingt and nonprofit organizations creating jobs as a resultg of state and federal recoveryt efforts.” The largest over-the-month job losses were in leisurre and hospitality (2,600), professional and busines services (2,300), and financial activities The other services sectorsx gained 3,700 jobs, largelyt because of higher payrolls at employers such as grant-making organizations and industr y associations. Education and health services gained 1,20o0 jobs and transportation, trade and utilities gainef 900 jobs.
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