Factories see payroll expansion for fourth month in a row

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Factories added 17,000 jobs in March as unemployment rate dips to two-year low

March marked the fourth month in a row, unemployment declined in March. Nearly 216,000 new jobs were added. Since the beginning of 2011, unemployment fell a full percentage point, the largest drop since 1983.

Among industries that expanded payroll were factories. With the addition of 17,000 jobs in March, it marked the fifth month in a row of growth within the industry.

“The U.S. labor market is finally making some serious progress. No fooling,” said Sal Guatieri, economist at BMO Capital Markets Economics.

There are obvious advantages and disadvantages of growth. On the one hand, growth is always good. Growth in business means that revenues are up. That’s common sense. Growth, however, also means new employees. These employees need to be trained and integrated to factories’ labor force.

That comes with a cost. Each day a worker is training and not working, it devalues the overall output. That is, of course, until a worker is no longer in training.

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