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Show ' r I Not quite a gold rush, but county job picture improves 1986. Government continues to play a slightly smaller role in the area's job picture, with 100 fewer jobs listed in August vs. July. That's also 650 from down a year ago. Looking at the overall impact of government on jobs, that share of the workforce has dipped from 35.2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 I By TOM BUSSELBERG 1 CLEARFIELD It's no gold rush, but the job picture is producing produc-ing a trickle of new positions. Clearfield Job Service Manager Jack Bailey notes some 530 new jobs were created in the Wasatch Front North region of Davis, Weber We-ber and Morgan counties, last month. "The spotlight for new jobs has been shifting to manufacturing. That's showing a healthy gain of 350 jobs over a month ago," Mr. Bailey notes. Some 720 positions have been added in the three-county three-county area over the past year for a four-percent plus increase. "Manufacturing employment had been below that of a year ago until recently," he continues. Although construction jobs actually showed a 100 gain from August over July, that picture is still dismal compared to a year ago. Some 880 fewer positions were listed this year over 1986. "That (construction) is largely responsible for the anemic seven-tenths seven-tenths of a percent gain in non-farm jobs in the three county area over the past year," Mr. Bailey says. The trade sector normally shows a healthy gain with new personnel added for the back-to-school rush. Instead, some 80 fewer jobs were reported in that area over July, he explains. But overall, some 450 new slots have been created since County job picture brightens CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE percent in August of 1982 to 32.4 percent last month. At the same time, manufacturing has grown from 13 percent of the labor force to nearly 15 percent and services now claim more than 19 percent or nearly one fifth compared to 17 percent five years ago. And despite construction's recent re-cent hard times, that share of the pie has increased from 4.3 percent vs. 4.9 percent now. , Davis County's jobless rate, meanwhile, dropped to 5.2 percent in August compared to 5.5 percent in July. That figure was far better than Weber's 7.2 or Morgan's eight percent. Some 76,350 of the county's residents resi-dents were considered part of the labor force with 72,380 actually working, Mr. Bailey adds. |