Louisiana unemployment rate falls as more leave labor force

Napa County continues to have the fifth lowest unemployment rate for the state, the EDD said.

Every county in Southwest Florida saw its unemployment rate fall in August over the month – and over the year.

Virginia’s unemployment rate has fallen half a percentage point since August 2014.

The decline in the unemployment rate and the increase in nonfarm payroll jobs both indicate a “pretty healthy expansionary phase” of the Arkansas economy for the past two years, Pakko said. Professional and business sector industries have seen the greatest growth in San Diego over the past year, adding 11,500 jobs.

For children, this rate jumps to 22.7 percent, meaning 1 in 5 in California are poor. At the same time, new claims for Unemployment Insurance were 43,332 in August, compared with 45,435 in July and 47,640 in August of previous year .

Seven categories (construction; trade, transportation and utilities; information; financial activities; educational and health services; leisure and hospitality; and government) added jobs over the month, gaining 56,200 jobs.

The labor force also declined by about 900. Vermont has the third lowest unemployment rate in the country and there are tremendous opportunities in the Vermont economy today for individuals of all backgrounds and skill sets.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman on Thursday released the following statements in response to the Connecticut Department of Labor’s “Labor Situation” report for August 2015, which showed several thousand jobs were created last month.

Even as fast as jobs are being added at Connecticut businesses, the private sector job numbers are still 1.6 percent below where they were in early 2008. None of the over-the-month changes were statistically significant in the seasonally-adjusted series.

Butler encouraged job seekers to utilize the GDOL’s new job listing service, EmployGeorgia, where employers posted 75,207 jobs throughout the state in August. It peaked in jobs at 247,300 in February 1995 and has since lost more than 94,000.

The county’s former image as a state-leading troth of unemployment is long gone, with Flagler 20th from the county with the most unemployment (Hendry, at 12.2 percent).