“There are some mixed indicators, notably the unemployment rate increased two tenths of a percent”, said Paul Shannon, the state’s Labor Market Information Director. According to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, the statewide rate fell from 5.2 percent in June to 5.0 percent in July.
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U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said July marked the nation’s 65th consecutive month of private-sector job growth. Ellsworth County also saw an increase from 3.5 to 3.7 percent. In the first quarter of 2015, the female LFPR rate was 36.4%, which is half the male rate of 73.9%. It was down from 6.2 percent a year ago. Alabama’s is 6.2 per cent, Georgia’s is 6 per cent and North Carolina’s is 5.9 per cent.
Paul Shannon put the seasonally adjusted unemployment figure for July at 6.1 percent. The national rate stayed steady at 5.3 percent. The highest rates were Wilcox at 16.2, Clarke at 13.5 and Lowndes at 13.2.
There was a round of applause inside the Haynes Corporation in Naples as the governor announced the latest job numbers. Orangeburg had the highest, 12.4 percent.
One category, mining and logging, posted job declines over the year, down 2,300 jobs (a 7.3 percent decrease).
Mississippi’s employers flexed a little muscle in July, posting the state’s biggest payroll gain since before the recession.
However the unemployment rate for Riverside County rose to 7.3 percent, up from 6.6 percent in June.
Even with that ugly number, that’s still 1.1 percent better than 2014. The remaining 27 states had rates that were not appreciably different from those of a year earlier.
The department’s report shows nonfarm employment gained 8,100 jobs in July.
The financial activities sector had 1,000 more jobs in July 2015. The only significant job decrease occurred in New Jersey (-13,600). Retail trade added 1,300 jobs.
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For some, conspiracy theories are a convenient crutch – that rascally White House, the argument goes, must be manipulating the data to fool everyone – while other Republicans make the case that there’s a difference between the unemployment rate and the real unemployment rate.
