17 months. 215,000 positions were added in july, with the Unemployment Rate steady at 5. 3 . Wage s nudged up just slightly, while the share of americans participating in the labor force remains stuck at a 38year low. But experts say the overall report is proof the recovery is chugging along and likelynd kee the Federal Reserve on track for its first Interest Rate hike since 2006. Hampton pearson has more on the numbers and what they mean for main street and wall street. For the first seven months of this year, job growth has been wide spread, averaging 212,000 jobs per month. Health care continues to lead, up 436,000 for the year, including 28,000 last month. Retailers have added 322,000 new employees as Consumer Spending picks up. And it was another strong month for professional and technical services, up 27,000, topping 301,000 for the year. Those booming auto sales help manufacturing have its best month of the year. Workers hours increased, but wage growth remained stagnant. Overal
17 months. 215,000 positions were added in july, with the Unemployment Rate steady at 5. 3 . Wage s nudged up just slightly, while the share of americans participating in the labor force remains stuck at a 38year low. But experts say the overall report is proof the recovery is chugging along and likely keeps the Federal Reserve on track for its first Interest Rate hike since 2006. Hampton pearson has more on the numbers and what they mean for main street and wall street. For the first seven months of this year, job growth has been wide spread, averaging 212,000 jobs per month. Health care continues to lead, up 436,000 for the year, including 28,000 last month. Retailers have added 322,000 new employees as Consumer Spending picks up. And it was another strong month for professional and technical services, up 27,000, topping 301,000 for the year. Those booming auto sales help manufacturing have its best month of the year. Workers hours increased, but wage growth remained stagnant. Overal
Locker room. Students claim they repeatedly told administrators about the doll. It offended me because that doll looks like me, that doll looks like a lot of my friends , and they are not doing nothing bit. Reporter i spoke to two principal whose say they are investigating that doll incident, students involved with that will be in trouble but students involved in the pumpkin incident actually cannot be punished on School Grounds because the incident did not happen on school ground. Coming up at 6 00 hear from two principal whose say that they are disgusted by the racism going on in the school, but students that sat outside all day could be discipline for skipping school for the entire day. Reporting live from coatsville , david spunt for cbs3 Eyewitness News. See new an hour. Gloucester count a digsal Police Officers were assigned to Washington Township high school today after racist Text Messages shared on social media, sparked fights among students. The district held an emergency mee
Bay. One man is dead after an overnight police shooting. The issue started late last night at a home on Mount Frazier drive. Officers recieved a call about a family disturbance. A father and son were arguing with each other. Police say when they got to the home. The 28yearold son came out of the garage and charged at one of the officers with kitchen knives in both hands. Thats when one of the officers fired his gun. Gerry Hernandez neighbor the guy got shot down the street. All i heard were three gunshots. When we came out they put the yellow cones on it. I think there were 8 to 10 cones down the street reporter did you know the man . Gerry Hernandez neighb orno grant the man was rushed to the hospital and into surgery where he later died. Police say the man has a history of drug use, Mental Illness and prior criminal threats. The officer involved in the shooting. Is a 15 year veteran and has been placed on paid administrative leave. The investigation is on going. vicki staying in the
Available on your mobile devices and the internet. The pitch is once folks park here they can get to philadelphia, patco, they have 60,000 unsold passes the river ferry or the maligned multimile hike over the ben franklin bridge, that is closed for traffic. Patco had news, they are no longer selling passes online, concerned they cannot mail them in time. They will sell them at the offices. And the new Jersey Transit line is selling tickets prior to the weekend. Think about those weekend, they will not be on sale over the weekend, you need to make an effort to make your plans and buy your tickets today. Reporter so different transit agencies two different theorys on sales, the sale for the special passes have been somewhat slow, patco only sold 20 of their 75,000 passes it has issued they hope that todays opening up of Parking Spaces here in camden will help spur the folks across the river to come see the pope. John rawlins, channel 6 action news. We of course are just nine days and 17