Nebraska jobless rate holds steady at 2.9 percent in October

The biggest job losses came in local government as well as professional and business service with both sectors reporting 1,100 fewer jobs than in September. 9 percent found in Calistoga.

From January 1999 to June 2001, Arkansas’ unemployment rate was below 5 percent every month. “The wage and salary employment is at its highest level for the year”. Denair had a rate of 4.8 percent, up from 4.3 percent recorded in September. The state gained 13,600 total nonfarm jobs over the month, or 1.0 percent.

Notes: Unemployment rates were computed from unrounded data.

Englehart said he expects the monthly unemployment rate to hold steady through the end of the year, but then spike in January as people hired for seasonal holiday work lose their jobs. We had our best month for job growth in ten years, and the unemployment rate fell again. It sits just above the national average of 5 percent. Scott called it the “highest month for job growth in 10 years”. 4 percent since October of 2014. North Dakota had the lowest, at 2.8 percent. West Virginia had the highest rate, 6.9 percent, the BLS stated.

Data produced by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics and released by the state Department of Workforce Services show that the state’s jobless rate last month was down from the October 2014 rate of 5.8 percent. That’s up more than 23 percent from the same span previous year.

One of those differences is Jacksonville is actually adding jobs at a faster pace than the rest of the state. The San Joaquin County unemployment rate climbed to 8.1 percent from last month’s 7.4 percent.

Initial jobless claims – which represent the number of unemployment benefit filings made by Americans who either recently separated from a job or had not yet registered for assistance programs – clocked in at 271,000 last week. The remaining 24 states had rates that were not appreciably different from those of a year earlier.

In October 2015, 23 states had statistically significant over-the-month changes in employment, all of which were positive.