Job ads down on housing, energy woes

The Conference Board this week announced that its measure of job ads in major U.S. newspapers fell two points in March as the housing crunch and energy and food prices continued to slow the economy.

The group's Help-Wanted Advertising Index is now off 10 points from its level a year ago (29), and over the last three months has declined in all nine U.S. regions. Steepest declines occurred in the East North Central (-20.3 percent), West North Central (-18.1 percent) and East South Central (-16.7 percent) regions.

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