Unemployment rate at 7-year low in June with 600 new jobs

“Above trend private-sector job growth looks to be continuing, while the jobless rate has recently declined significantly”, Andy Condon, director of the Labor Department’s Office of Research, said. Still, Connecticut has recovered just 82 percent of the 119,000 lost jobs.

“This is yet another milestone reached – unemployment is down to its lowest point in seven years”.

Connecticut’s unemployment rate was still higher than the 5.3 percent US rate.

“The good news is that the state is moving in the right direction, the bad news is that we are moving slowly”, said Klepper-Smith, who served as chairman of Gov. Jodi M. Rell’s economic advisory council from 2007 to 2010.

Preliminary nonfarm employment numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show Connecticut added 600 seasonally adjusted jobs in June.

Unemployment in Ellis County remained flat for the third straight month in June, according to information from the Kansas Department of Labor. “We know that until everyone that wants a job has one, our work is not complete”, Malloy said in a statement on Monday. It’s the lowest since July 2008 when it was 5.7 percent.

The government supersector faced the biggest drop in June, shedding 2,000 jobs – primarily at the municipal government level. Private sector jobs were down 6,800 from May while the public sector added jobs for the third consecutive month.

Over the year, total nonfarm jobs in Pennsylvania were up 58,000 (+1.0 percent). Seasonally adjusted data provide the most valid month-to-month comparison.