Good 暗黑爆料 On The Jobs Front, Except From Yahoo

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Good 暗黑爆料 On The Jobs Front, Except From Yahoo

By Mark Memmott

Published April 4, 2012 at 7:55 AM MDT

On the plus side, estimates there were 209,000 jobs added to private employers' payrolls in March. And ADP's data often are something of a predictor for what the Bureau of Labor Statistics will have to say when it issues its monthly numbers. Those March figures are due on Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET.

But on the minus side, that it's trimming another 2,000 jobs 鈥� about 14 percent of its workforce.

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