State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said in a statement that Georgia’s jobless rate declined as employers hired more people and created more jobs. The Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk and New Haven market areas added 700 and 200 jobs, respectively, while the Norwich-New London-Westerly market was unchanged.
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Ohio’s nonagricultural wage and salary employment increased 11,400 over the month, from a revised 5,494,900 in June to 5,506,300 in July 2016.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits rose by 15,000 to 2.175 million in the week ended August 6, the highest level since April though still historically low.
Doug Walls, a research administrator with the newly renamed Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity, said unemployment claims continue to drop compared with the same period in 2015, suggesting that the unemployment rate is rising due to more people joining the labor market rather than a worsening economy.
But Maryland lost government jobs as well as jobs in construction, leisure and hospitality, and trade, transportational and utilities. Private sector jobs were up 7,500, primarily in the retail, finance, education, health care, professional and business services and hospitality sectors.
Zeller said the increases in government and manufacturing were key to OH improving its job growth rate. Employment was down 4,100, and the number of unemployed decreased by 2,083. “Manufacturing was up 2,600 and government up 2,700”.
But the county has lost 100 jobs year over year in financial-related work, according to a state report.
Editor’s Note: A breakdown of Pennsylvania’s employment statistics can be viewed on the ‘Current Labor Force Statistics image above.
Initial claims for unemployment benefits, a gauge for unemployment trends across the U.S., declined by 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 262,000 in the week ended August 13, according to a statement released by the U.S. Department of Labor.
“The private-sector job growth was, let’s say, paltry”, said Rick Kaglic, regional economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
There are, however, tentative signs that the energy drag on business investment could be fading.
Tennessee’s 2.3 percent growth in jobs in the past 12 months topped the national growth rate of 1.7 percent and kept Tennessee’s jobless rate below the comparable 4.9 percent unemployment rate for the U.S.as a whole during July. The nation gained 255,000 jobs.
The state’s jobless rate had stood at 3 percent since January. The jobless rate for Hispanics was 5.4 percent and 8.4 percent for blacks.
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July estimates show 3.4 million MA residents were employed and 146,100 were unemployed, for a total labor force of 3.6 million.
