It hit 5.1 percent, which the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission says is the seventh-straight month the state has seen an increase.
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In Warren County, the 3.9 percent jobless rate in August was a slight improvement from 4 percent in July. This was up from 4 percent in July and 4.1 percent in August 2015. “Seven of the state’s 11 major industrial sectors added jobs in the last 12 months, and other economic measures point to continued growth”.
The Oklahoma unemployment rate has climbed above the 4.9 percent national average.
Jobless levels locally are at their lowest levels since 2007, but still would have to decline further to approach the modern-day lows that were set in 2000, when unemployment dipped as low as 3.8 percent in October 2000 and hovered between that and 4.3 percent for the final 10 months of 2000.
Monroe County had the highest jobless rate in the state at 9 percent.
Government industries lost a net total of 400 jobs, down 2 percent from August 2015.
“North Carolina has seen one of the largest decreases in unemployment in the nation since 2013 and we are home to one of the fastest growing economies in the nation”, McCrory said through a released statement. Professional and business services lost 1,900 jobs, and education and health services lost 1,500.
The current net employment outlook is also weaker than it was for the same period last year, according to Tom Maher, a spokesman for Manpower Dayton: “Last year at this time, employers expected more hiring activity”.
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The department calculates the unemployment rate based on the number of people in Lane County drawing unemployment benefits – which requires them to seek work – and a survey of households by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. “It’s not just off the unemployment rolls”, Patel said. Rates fell in four of seven swing states and rose in three.
