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Month: June 2021

Yes, there’s a labor shortage. But hiring is surging. Here’s why

By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business What labor shortage? America’s private sector employers added 692,000 jobs in June, according to Wednesday’s ADP Employment Report. That exceeded Wall Street analysts’ expectations. While employers complain that they can’t find enough workers, the battered leisure and hospitality industry still registered by far the most job growth at 332,000 new

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Historic Northwest heat wave linked to dozens of deaths and hundreds of emergency room visits

By Angela Fritz, Carma Hassan and Brisa Colon, CNN Hundreds of people have visited emergency departments or urgent-care clinics in the Pacific Northwest since Friday — and as many as 230 deaths have been reported — as an excruciating heat wave smashed all-time temperature records in Oregon, Washington and Canada. Portland set record-high temperatures three

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