Jobs and workers drop in Louisiana, but jobless rate level

Sep 21, 2016, 01:22
Jobs and workers drop in Louisiana, but jobless rate level

Nationally, the unemployment rate did not change in August, staying at 4.9 percent.

Unemployment rates mostly fell in August compared with a year ago in USA presidential swing states, including Florida and North Carolina.

Nonfarm employment for August totaled 1,017,899, an increase of 10,077 over the year.

The national seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for August was 4.9 percent, the same as the July rate and down 0.2 percentage points from the August 2015 rate of 5.1 percent.

Make it your business. The national unemployment rate remained steady at 4.9 percent.

"Basically, we're hitting nearly historically low unemployment rates", said Shital Patel, a state labor market analyst. Additionally, the state paid off the $2.5 billion unemployment insurance debt to the federal government ahead of schedule saving employers more than $760 million in taxes since 2013.

The state Department of Workforce Services says the jobless rate is down from July's 5.7 percent. The Town of Babylon had Suffolk County's highest rate at 4.8 percent while the towns of Huntington, Smithtown and Southampton were tied for the lowest rates in the county at 3.6 percent.

At the same time, the number of people who were employed last month rose by less than 1 percent, or 3,500 people, to the highest level for any August since 2010. But that separate survey of workers showed lower numbers of people seeking and holding jobs.

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