Definition: In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to identify an event from the passage. An event is defined as a single word representing something that happened, is happening, or may happen. An event can be factual or hypothetical, positive or negative, certain or uncertain. While most events are based on verbs, an event can also be based on a noun (ex. storm, snow, rainfall) or a copula verb (is, was, been, etc.). The event must not be a pronoun or an adjective. For noun events with multiple words, use the last word in the phrase as event.
Input: Passage: The jobless situation improved because employment growth continued to outstrip labor-force growth, the department added. In the first 10 months, the Labor Department received 356,878 private-sector vacancies, up 20 percent over the full-year figure of 297,186 in 2004.

received