The monthly Consumer Confidence Index that uses 1985 as a base year with an assigned value of 100, rose from 46.4 to 52.5 after falling more than 10 points during the previous month, the Conference Board said.
In a March survey of 5,000 households, the number of respondents indicating economic conditions were "good" rose from 6.8 percent to 8.6 percent. The number of respondents indicating conditions were "bad" fell from 45.1 percent to 42.8 percent.
A similar shift occurred with responses on the employment picture. Respondents indicating jobs were "plentiful" rose from 4 percent to 4.4 percent and those indicating jobs were "hard to get" fell from 47.3 percent to 45.8 percent.
These are not numbers are not ideal but guess what. They are rising and that’s a good thing. I prefer to judge our local economy based on the jobs I’m receiving. Right now we have three major bathroom remodels going and a detached garage project. The garage will house my customers new 2010 Ford pickup that he purchased two months ago.
We are fortunate that some are spending and hopeful that more Americans secure employment quickly so we can get back to that perfect score of 100 that we had in 1985.
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