Washington jobless rate holds steady at 5.8 percent

“There are less and less unemployed individuals in California and fortunately more and more job opportunities”, said department spokeswoman Loree Levy.

The industries with the biggest declines in employment since April were educational and health services, and government.

In the Verizon strike, now settled, almost 39,000 landline and cable employees walked off the job in April from Virginia north to MA.

In May, leisure and hospitality was the only sector of the MA economy to experience job gains.

Butler on Thursday urged job seekers to visit his department’s online site, www.employgeorgia.com, to check out available positions statewide.

In May 2015, Arkansas’ unemployment rate was 5.4 percent and the national rate was 5.5 percent. Nebraska’s rate was 3 percent in May, and Maine’s was 3.5 percent.

Tennessee’s preliminary unemployment rate for May was 4.1 percent, down from the April revised rate of 4.3 percent, Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips announced today.

Indiana’s unemployment rate went down two-tenths of a percent in May, falling to five percent.

College and public-school workers led a heavy loss of jobs in Arizona in May that also pushed up the state’s unemployment rate.

MA residents who were employed: 3.4 million.

The number of underemployed persons increased by around 2 600 from 53 300 in February – April 2016 to 55 900 in March – May 2016.

Jobless numbers come from a phone survey of households.

Pennsylvania’s civilian labor force was up 15,000 in May to a record high of 6,541,000.

The largest gains were the addition of almost three-thousands jobs in the education and health services sectors. On the other hand, several sectors lost jobs. Telecommunications was impacted by a temporary labor dispute.

The construction sector fell by 100 jobs in May 2016 from a month ago. Over-the-year employment growth has been positive for the past 26 months. Construction added 1,500 jobs and Trade, Transportation and Utilities added 800 jobs.

Among the areas seeing a boost in employment: professional and business services and leisure and hospitality. Over the year, financial activities gained 3,000 jobs (+1.4%).

Full-time jobs are declining in Australia as the economy switches from mining to services with an accompanying rise in part-time employment.

The state experienced modest job growth in every industry but manufacturing, which had a job decline for the fourth consecutive month.

Government jobs remained unchanged (0.0%) over the month.