The county’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 5.8 percent for June is down from 6.1 percent in May, according the state.
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The Charlotte region’s unemployment rate increased slightly in June from the month before, but was still lower than the same month a year ago.
Unemployment rates rose in every metropolitan area in Colorado from May to June with Boulder the lowest at 3.1 percent and Grand Junction the highest at 6.2 percent.
More than 100,000 Pennsylvanians sought work during the first five months of 2016, boosting the state’s unemployment rate by nearly a full percentage point to 5.5 percent in May.
The seasonally adjusted jobless rate for the Chambersburg-Waynesboro Metropolitan Statistical Area decreased to 5 percent in June, down from 5.1 percent in May and the same as in April.
Figures supplied last week by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development showed 22,780 Jefferson Countians employed in June out of a total labor force of 24,120, leaving 1,340 unemployed.
The higher jobless rates in the Pittsburgh area overall this spring can be seen as a result of more people joining the labor force and looking for work, meeting the government’s definition of “unemployed”. The rate was 4.1 percent in Wyoming County and 5 percent in Orleans County.
The number of employed county residents increased by 400 to 38,900, while the number of unemployed residents dropped 300 to 2,900.
Over the year, Indiana County’s jobless rate was up 0.9 percent. The data is not seasonally adjusted.
Within that total number of jobs, the leisure and hospitality sector added 200 more jobs than it usually does in June.
“Before the recession, unemployment averaged around 4.6 for the month of June, and at 4.3 percent, we now stand well below that long term historical marker”.
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Franklin County in June tied Northampton County for the 18th lowest unemployment rate among Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.
