Alabama’s June unemployment rate was 6 percent, the Alabama Department of Labor announced Friday.
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The sector of leisure and hospitality has demonstrated the strongest growth this year, adding 5,727 jobs.
Numbers of those employed: June estimates show 3.5 million MA residents were employed and 149,600 were unemployed, for a total labor force of 3.59 million. Losses were reported in mining and logging and educational and health services.
Both the local and state unemployment rates remained well below the national rate, which was 4.9 percent in June. Counties with the highest unemployment rates are: Wilcox County at 15.1 percent, Perry County at 13.5 percent and Clarke County at 12.5 percent. In June, 64,944 jobs throughout the state were posted on Employ Georgia. However, these job gains were offset somewhat by the loss of 3,000 jobs in the service industry.
Connecticut’s education sector added 2,000 jobs in June, he said.
The state Department of Labor reports that puts the number of jobs added since June past year at 17,900. Those trends correspond with the national report that saw the unemployment rate rise from 4.7 per cent in May to 4.9 per cent as more workers started searching for jobs. Over the year, Manufacturing lost 200 (-0.1%) jobs. Employment dropped by 7,000 while unemployment grew by 3,000.
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The only two supersectors to decline were mining and logging; and trade, transportation and utilities.
