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Hospitals added 10,000 new jobs in December—double the monthly average and almost half the job growth across the health care sector, according to an analysis of the latest employment numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Overall, health care employment grew by 23,000 jobs last month, just shy of the two-year average, analysts at Altarum Institute’s Center for Sustainable Health Spending note in their latest labor brief. “With another month of steady growth in health sector jobs, there is still no indication of a slowdown in health employment despite low rates of growth in health spending,” the report says....
If you’re considering a career in health care, there are some mighty encouraging findings in a new report by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. The unemployment rate for experienced college graduates who majored in a health care field was just 2.2 percent in 2009 and 2010. That’s the lowest among all the majors featured in “Hard Times, College Majors, Unemployment, and Earnings: Not All College Degrees Are Created Equal”—and far better than November’s 8.6 percent national unemployment rate, the latest data available. Health care professionals with graduate degrees ranked even lower at 1.9 percent. Among recent college...
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