Mass. Unemployment Numbers Fall
MARLBORO (CBS) -- Pete Sauer has been through the wringer. The Marlboro resident has been laid off twice in the past five years, most recently May 1 of this year.
He describes the six months since then as if he was slowly falling through space.
His search for jobs in Information Technology management saw him calling on old co-workers, looking in the want ads, and even included him reaching out to a recruitment agency, Winter Wyman.
This week, the agency came through, connecting Peter with a new job; two long interviews later, the 52-year-old got an offer. He starts next week.
Sauer is an optimistic guy by nature, but says it was hard at times to keep his chin up. Watching the news at night, he says, reminded him of how dire the nation's economic situation was and forced him to contemplate his future role in it.
But now, he's a part of what seems to be just the slightest bit of a turnaround in the nation's employment situation.
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WBZ News Radio's Doug Cope files a report on the economy.
We learned Friday morning that the US economy added 151,000 jobs in October, soundly beating analysts' predictions. The national unemployment rate, though, remains stuck at 9.6 percent.
Though it certainly does not seem like it to Bay Staters who are still looking for work, Massachusetts is actually adding jobs at a faster pace than the rest of the country.
The Bay State's unemployment rate fell from 8.8 percent to 8.4 percent for the month of September. October's numbers are due out November 18th.
