I would lower taxes for company's to increase hiring.

And clouds remain: manufacturers eliminated three million jobs in the past three years, and have yet to increase hiring.

Employers in the service sector predicted the largest increase, 19.8 percent, with manufacturers planning to increase hiring of graduates by 9.5 percent.

Manufacturers can increase production and hiring.

Until order backlogs begin to rise, manufacturers will be loath to increase hiring.

The report, which is considered a good indicator of whether companies will increase production and hiring, was seen as a sign that the nation's economy has yet to pick up.

Businesses said they expected to increase hiring of graduates in each of those groups by 14 percent next year.

In the wake of employee lawsuits, most companies have not increased hiring of staff in positions typically held by permatemps.

But on the other, companies see the economy expanding, although slowly, quarter after quarter, and as orders flow in, they feel obligated to increase hiring.