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Robust hiring gain in June points to a resilient US economy
Associated Press
July 8, 2016
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Brian Krenke, president of furniture manufacturer KI, said his firm has had to raise pay 5 percent to 10 percent for hard-to-fill positions such as tool and die technicians. Five of its eight North American factories are in Wisconsin, Krenke said, where the unemployment rate is just 4.2 percent.
“You can imagine how difficult it is to try to identify talented workers and bring them in,” he said.