Although it remained below the national rate, Kentucky’s preliminary July unemployment rate rose slightly, to a seasonally adjusted 5.2 percent, up a fraction from a revised 5.1 percent in June 2015.
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Several states scheduled to choose presidential nominees March 1 also have low unemployment, including Colorado, at 4.3 per cent; Minnesota, 4 per cent; Oklahoma, 4.5 per cent; Texas, 4.2 per cent; and Virginia, 4.8 per cent.
For the local breakdown, Hillsborough County’s unemployment rate was 5.2 percent in July, the same number reported in June, but down from 6.3 percent in July 2014.
Walker’s administration on Wednesday said the latest quarterly data, covering the 12-month period ending in March, Wisconsin added just shy of 40,000 private-sector jobs. Government (-600 jobs) and Information (-200) were the industries within the non-agricultural job category to lose jobs.
Employment in the construction sector fell by 800 in July 2015 from a month ago.
Since July 2014, Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate has improved from 5.5 percent.
The sector actually added 2,361 jobs last month on an unadjusted basis, according to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.
At both the state and national level there are “discouraged workers” who want employment but looked in the past year.
In July 2015, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 34 states and decreased in 16 states and the District of Columbia. Even a President Trump would be unable to make much of dent in this supposed unemployment rate, given that most of the Americans he is counting as “unemployed” are not in the labor force by choice.
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Mississippi’s employers flexed a little muscle in July, posting the state’s biggest payroll gain since before the recession. Since July 2014, jobs this sector have expanded by 1,000 positions. Education and health services reached a record high for the third month in row.
