Health sector emerges as major new jobs creator

National Journal: You Can Thank The Health Care Industry For The Economic Recovery
Since the recession hit in late 2007, a huge proportion of the new jobs have been in the health sector-;hospitals, doctors' offices and nursing homes. All along, those jobs have been rising at a steady clip, while jobs in all other sectors have seen more dismal performance. ... If health care jobs had just held steady, the unemployment rate would be a full point higher. If they had taken a dive with the rest of the economy, the current unemployment rate would be 10.8 percent, according to an analysis from the Altarum Institute, which track health employment trends (Sanger-Katz, 1/31).