{"id":5868,"date":"2019-05-17T12:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2019-05-17T12:45:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:45:24","slug":"april-indiana-employment-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/?p=5868","title":{"rendered":"April Indiana Employment Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just in via email from Indiana Department of Workforce Development &lt;<a href=\"mailto:dwd@subscriptions.in.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dwd@subscriptions.in.gov<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"govd_template_image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/content.govdelivery.com\/attachments\/fancy_images\/INDWD\/2017\/05\/1360659\/1349194\/news-release-banner_crop.jpg?resize=540%2C107&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"DWD News Release Banner\" width=\"540\" height=\"107\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\">April Indiana Employment Report<\/h1>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>INDIANAPOLIS<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(May 17, 2019) \u2013\u00a0Indiana\u2019s unemployment rate\u00a0remains at\u00a03.6 percent for\u00a0April, and the national rate\u00a0also stands at\u00a03.6 percent. 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<p class=\"gd_p\" align=\"left\">Indiana\u2019s labor force\u00a0had a net increase of\u00a01,349 over the previous month. This was a result of\u00a0an increase of\u00a029\u00a0unemployed residents and\u00a0an increase of 1,320 employed residents.\u00a0Indiana&#8217;s\u00a0total labor force, which includes both Hoosiers employed and those seeking employment,\u00a0stands at 3.41 million, and the state\u2019s\u00a065.3 percent labor force participation rate remains above the national rate of\u00a062.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gd_p\" align=\"left\">Learn more about how unemployment rates are calculated here: <a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com:80\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwNTE3LjU5OTU5MTEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwNTE3LjU5OTU5MTEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzM3NzAwNCZlbWFpbGlkPXByb21vdGlvbnNAamRuYXNoLm9yZyZ1c2VyaWQ9cHJvbW90aW9uc0BqZG5hc2gub3JnJmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;http:\/\/www.hoosierdata.in.gov\/infographics\/employment-status.asp\">http:\/\/www.hoosierdata.in.gov\/infographics\/employment-status.asp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana\u2019s labor force\u00a0had a net increase of\u00a01,349 over the previous month. This was a result of\u00a0an increase of\u00a029\u00a0unemployed residents and\u00a0an increase of 1,320 employed residents.\u00a0Indiana&#8217;s\u00a0total labor force, which includes both Hoosiers employed and those seeking employment,\u00a0stands at 3.41 million, and the state\u2019s\u00a065.3 percent labor force participation rate remains above the national rate of\u00a062.8 percent.<\/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":[3],"tags":[1348,319,1064],"class_list":["post-5868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","tag-april-2019","tag-indiana","tag-unemployment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sKnr-1wE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868","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=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5870,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions\/5870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}