The Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) said the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in July was down 0.1 percent from June and was 0.7 percent lower than a year ago. “We still have work to do matching the skills of the 120,000 unemployed to the job opportunities around the state”. However, the state’s labor force and employment levels fell significantly in the intervening years, according to state officials.
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The New England unemployment rate averaged 4.3 percent in July.
Amarillo and Austin-Round Rock areas tied for the state’s lowest jobless rate last month at 3.6 percent.
The unemployment rate in MA has dropped to 4.1 percent and preliminary estimates show the state gained 7,300 jobs in July. In the private sector, the largest of those gains have come from jobs in construction, business and health services and leisure and hospitality. Mining and logging lost 1,200 jobs, attributed to recent layoffs and closures.
Nebraska’s preliminary unemployment rate for July was 3.1 percent, seasonally adjusted.
Lee McPheters, director of the JPMorgan Chase Economic Outlook Center at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, said the state is among the leaders nationally in its rate of job growth and continues to see a promising mix of higher-wage industries.
“We are excited to celebrate another month of record-low unemployment”, Haley said in a statement. Most of the growth was reported in health care and social assistance (+5,700), an on-going employment trend.
The state’s private-sector added 8,000 jobs.
About 3,380 employed people reported losing their jobs in July, with the biggest reports of job loss in Eureka and Arcata, losing 680 and 580 jobs respectively.
“The unemployment rate dropped as Georgia employers hired more people and created more jobs”, said State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler.
Nonfarm payroll jobs in Arkansas declined by 16,700 in July compared to the previous month to total 1.2 million. Government employment declined by 700 jobs, largely as a result of seasonal fluctuation at the Department of Education.
Retailers cut 500 jobs in July in greater Sacramento, although the leisure and hospitality sector added 1,000 jobs.
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Gioia said CT and ME are the only two New England states that have yet to recover all jobs lost during the recession.
