Healthcare Jobs Keep Economy Afloat

Fridayâ??s jobs report showed a gain of only 18,000 non-farm jobs across the entire economy. Health services accounted for an astonishing 13,500 of these new jobs. While it certainly is not typical for the health sector to account for three quarters of month-to-month job growth, employment growth in the health sector has outpaced that of the rest of the economy to a considerable extent for at least eight decades.