{"id":5631,"date":"2018-08-17T19:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T23:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/?p=5631"},"modified":"2018-08-17T19:53:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T23:53:27","slug":"july-2018-employment-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/?p=5631","title":{"rendered":"July 2018 Employment Data"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This just in via email from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. NOTE<\/strong>: the increase of 2,964 in unemployed residents shows 2,964 more people are now seeking jobs – people who gave up looking long ago are now re-entering the job market in earnest with intent to become employed. This is a very strong indicator that the quality and benefits of available jobs has increased enough to attract more workers.<\/p>\n

July\u00a0Indiana Employment Report<\/h1>\n

INDIANAPOLIS<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>(Aug. 17, 2018) \u2013\u00a0Indiana\u2019s unemployment rate<\/span> stands at\u00a03.4 percent<\/span> for\u00a0July<\/span> and remains lower than the national rate of\u00a03.9 percent. With the exception of one month when it was equal (October 2014), Indiana’s unemployment rate now has been below the U.S. rate for more than four years.<\/span> The monthly unemployment rate is a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicator that reflects the number of unemployed people seeking employment within the prior four weeks as a percentage of the labor force.<\/p>\n

Indiana\u2019s labor force<\/span>\u00a0had a net increase of\u00a015,564<\/span> over the previous month. This was a result of\u00a0a\u00a02,964 increase in\u00a0unemployed residents and\u00a0an increase of\u00a012,600 employed residents.\u00a0Indiana’s\u00a0total labor force<\/span>, which includes both Hoosiers employed and those seeking employment,\u00a0stands at 3.38 million,<\/span> and the state\u2019s\u00a064.8 percent labor force participation rate<\/span> remains above the national rate of\u00a062.9 percent. Indiana’s labor force growth of 67,519 over the past six months<\/span> represents the state’s largest six-month increase since 1995<\/span> in the state.<\/p>\n

In addition, Indiana’s initial unemployment insurance claims continue to be at historical lows.<\/p>\n

Learn more about how unemployment rates are calculated here: http:\/\/www.hoosierdata.in.gov\/infographics\/employment-status.asp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indiana\u2019s unemployment rate stands at\u00a03.4 percent for\u00a0July. Links to official Indiana DWD data and methodology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[933,141,319],"class_list":["post-5631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-information","tag-dwd","tag-employment","tag-indiana"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sKnr-1sP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5635,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions\/5635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}