A recent survey of Grand Rapids business reveals that 17 percent plan to add jobs. Help wanted advertising is also on the rise.
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The third-quarter job forecast for the Grand Rapids area is just above the state average.
"We've been outperforming the state for eight quarters," analyst Joe Ross of Manpower Inc. said. "What goes up must come down. It's economic gravity."
For this summer, the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey shows a 14 point difference between the percentage of Grand Rapids area employers expecting to hire and the percentage expecting cuts. Statewide, that number is 13.
Although 80 percent of Grand Rapids-area employers in the survey expect no job changes through September, 17 percent forecast adding jobs, and 3 percent said they would be cutting them.
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