i*****i
发帖数: 274 | | C******T
发帖数: 300 | | E**********r
发帖数: 327 | 3 don't think this speech will affect the market tomorrow.
Yellen: Small Businesses Are Driving Job Growth
WASHINGTON May 16, 2014 (AP)
By JOSH BOAK AP Economics Writer
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is spotlighting the fact that U.S. small
businesses have accounted for more than half the job gains during the nearly
5-year-old economic recovery.
The economy has regained 8.6 million jobs since early 2010, leaving it about
100,000 jobs short of the 138.4 million that existed in January 2008 near
the start of the recession. More than half those jobs came from companies
with fewer than 250 employees, Yellen tells small business owners in a
speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Yellen says the Fed has tried to foster the conditions for job creation by
keeping interest rates near historic lows, but that "overwhelmingly, it is
businesses that create jobs."
By contrast, governments have shed 2.6 percent of their workers since early
2010. |
|
