The decision followed news of grim economic data around the world, including data on U.S. payrolls and Chinese manufacturing.
Analysts have closely watched data on private payrolls, which tend to represent the bulk of new job gains.
Over all, 42 city agencies reported overtime costs related to the hurricane, from Oct. 29 to Dec. 24, according to the budget office, which relied on payroll data.
The ADP figures, based on payroll data, come before Friday's report from the Labor Department, which is expected to show that the economy created 70,000 jobs last month, less than in November, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey.
In the TJRD evaluation, MDRC calculations were based on payroll data from each site and unemployment insurance (UI) wage records from each of the states in the demonstration (Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin).
Five participants (three from the intervention group, two from the control group) were excluded for not providing data; they were three men and two women, all of them on payroll except one substitute.
Based on data on hourly wages including payroll taxes (for the different categories of healthcare professionals), we calculated individual home-based care expenditure and expenditure per group.
Wall Street is now looking ahead to jobless claims numbers out Thursday as well as the important payroll data on Friday for clues on the direction of interest rates.
Ahead of the latest European Central Bank meeting on Thursday and the US non-farm payrolls data on Friday, the FTSE 100 edged up 6.43 points to 6659.04, a new three week high.
The Times analyzed data on workers on the payrolls of state governments — not localities, which are the bigger employers of firefighters, police officers, teachers and some others — from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, which is conducted among more than three million households.
