Leisure and hospitality added 2,600 jobs, mostly in food services (+1,900).
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Iowa’s unemployment rate dropped slightly in November to 3.4 percent.
Manufacturing shed 500 jobs on the month.
Indiana’s labor-force participation rate came in at 63.7 percent, continuing a 19-month trend of being higher than the national average (62.5 percent). The nationwide rate was 4.8%, down from 5.5% a year earlier.
The numbers show that most American workers are enjoying job security.
The Lincoln rate also dropped two-tenths of a point, to 2.1 percent, and was also two-tenths of a point under the November 2014 figure.
Among large cities in the greater Valley region, Palmdale had the highest unemployment at 7.7 percent, down from 8.0 percent in October.
“November’s increase is welcome, but we need more sustained gains”, Schiller said, noting that OH has added 75,800 jobs over the past 12 months, which equates to an annual growth rate of about 1.4 percent, while the USA growth rate was 1.9 percent. In October, Van Wert County had a 3.5 percent jobless rate. This compares with 334,244 in October and 392,610 in November of past year. The largest private-sector job gains were in leisure and hospitality, education and health services, and construction.
Hall says labor conditions are improving statewide, except in Mesa County and Grand Junction and a handful of much smaller counties.
Washington added 10,100 new nonfarm jobs, on a preliminary, seasonally adjusted basis, from October 2015 to November 2015, according to the November Monthly Employment Report from the state’s Employment Security Department (ESD). Most of the decline was in durable goods manufacturing (-4,000), attributed in part to reported losses in primary metal manufacturing.
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Six categories (mining and logging; information; financial activities; professional and business services; other services and government) reported job declines over the month, down 15,000 jobs. Jobs have grown 1.1 percent in the past year in Minnesota, compared with a 1.9 percent growth rate nationally.
