WASHINGTON – Slower job growth – but growth nonetheless – in the U.S. was reported today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 209,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 6.2 percent, accordion to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Job gains occurred in professional and business services, manufacturing, retail trade, and construction.
Both the unemployment rate (6.2 percent) and the number of unemployed persons (9.7 million) changed little in July. Over the past 12 months, the unemployment rate and the number of unemployed persons have declined by 1.1 percentage points and 1.7 million, respectively.
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for adult women increased to 5.7 percent and the rate for blacks edged up to 11.4 percent in July, following declines for
both groups in the prior month. The rates for adult men (5.7 percent), teenagers (20.2 percent), whites (5.3 percent), and Hispanics (7.8 percent) showed little or no change in July. The jobless rate for Asians was 4.5 percent (not seasonally adjusted), little changed from a year earlier.
The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was essentially unchanged at 3.2 million in July. These individuals accounted for 32.9 percent of the unemployed. Over the past 12 months, the number of long-term unemployed has declined by 1.1 million.
The civilian labor force participation rate, at 62.9 percent, changed little in July. The participation rate has been essentially unchanged since April. The employment-population ratio, at 59.0 percent, was unchanged over the month but has edged up by 0.3 percentage point over the past 12 months.
The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers), at 7.5 million, was unchanged in July. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job.
In July, 2.2 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, down by 236,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
Among the marginally attached, there were 741,000 discouraged workers in July, down by 247,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.4 million persons marginally attached to the labor force in July had not searched for work for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities.
Establishment Survey Data
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 209,000 in July, the same as its average monthly gain over the prior 12 months. In July, employment grew in professional and business services, manufacturing, retail trade, and construction.
Professional and business services added 47,000 jobs in July and has added 648,000 jobs over the past 12 months. In July, employment continued to trend up across much of the industry, including a gain of 9,000 jobs in architectural and engineering services. Employment in temporary help services changed little over the month.
Manufacturing added 28,000 jobs in July. Job gains occurred in motor vehicles and parts (+15,000) and in furniture and related products (+3,000). Over the prior 12 months, manufacturing had added an average of 12,000 jobs per month, primarily in durable goods industries.
In July, retail trade employment rose by 27,000. Employment continued to trend up in automobile dealers, food and beverage stores, and general merchandise stores. Over the past year, retail trade has added 298,000 jobs.
Employment in construction increased by 22,000 in July. Within the industry, employment continued to trend up in residential building and in residential specialty trade contractors. Over the year, construction has added 211,000 jobs.
Social assistance added 18,000 jobs over the month and 110,000 over the year. (The social assistance industry includes child day care and services for the elderly and persons with disabilities.) Employment in health care changed little over the month, with job gains in ambulatory health care services (+21,000) largely offset by losses in hospitals (-7,000) and nursing care facilities (-6,000).
Mining added 8,000 jobs in July, with the bulk of the increase occurring in support activities for mining (+6,000). Over the year, mining employment has risen by 46,000.
Employment in leisure and hospitality changed little in July but has added 375,000 jobs over the year, primarily in food services and drinking places.
Employment in other major industries, including wholesale trade, transportation and warehousing, information, financial activities, and government, showed little change in July.
In July, the average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was 34.5 hours for the fifth straight month. The manufacturing workweek decreased by 0.2 hour in July to 40.9 hours, and factory overtime edged down by 0.1 hour to 3.4 hours. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls was 33.7 hours for
the fifth consecutive month.
In July, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged up by 1 cent to $24.45. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have risen by 2.0 percent. In July, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees increased by 4 cents to $20.61.
The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for May was revised from +224,000 to +229,000, and the change for June was revised from +288,000 to +298,000. With these revisions, employment gains in May and June were 15,000 higher than previously reported.
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I’ll stick to the subject. The 11.4% have it figured out. Why should they work when they can sell drugs, shack up with a white woman that has several kids by several men and lives on welfare. That’s easy living, don’t have to mow the grass or pick up the trash, just wait for the first of the month when the check comes. Gots to get me a bottle of Ol E or Mill.
I remember the black lady on the news. She said she voted for Obama because he gave her a cell phone. He has done more for Mexicans than his own people. Maybe someday they will wise up and quit voting over race.
Just a guess but I would say that half of the people that voted for him did so because of his color, some either wanted to be a part of voting in the first black man or because they are the same color. The other half voted for him because he gave them a couple bucks, or a phone.
Just a guess but I’d say about 50% of whites who voted for George W. Bush did so because of his color. The other half voted for him because he gave them a few bucks in tax cuts, which allowed them to get a cell phone.
@Philly-you forgot to mention all of the FREE phones that people get under Obama’s welfare society.
maybe, to say that your subjective analysis leaves much to be desired, is an understatement.
“Just a guess here”, but 50% of your comments have absolutely no basis in fact and the other 50% of your comments are the incoherent ramblings of someone detached from reality.
These are typical traits of those that claim to be “an Independent”, but in reality are too embarrassed or ashamed to admit that they are a far-right wing minion.
A Tea Party lackey if you will.
@wilbur-Keep drinking the Kool Aid. You are showing your ignorance.
Ah, I knew that it would not take long for NIT’s resident doofus to show up and contibute another in his long line of repetitive and assnine comments.
Your reputation of cluelessness and stupidity resonants throughout northern Iowa.
I congratulate you on having become the North Iowa poster-boy for imbecility, ineptitude and shallowness.
You have strived long and hard to achieve such a low and meaningless existence…I salute you.
The funny part, Wilbur, is that LVS thinks you just gave him a compliment.
@Wilbur-I knew the weekend trolls would be coming Everone knows Opinionated is a dumb ass, don’t get youeself in the same boat. No one pays the least bit of attention to trolls. They are a waste of space and a waste of time.
As I stated, LVS, with your very limited vocabulary – your repetitive and asinine comments are as predictable as your narrow-minded and feeble intellect.
Just My Opinion’s statement is correct due to your complete lack of comprehension of, well, everything.
Most people are born with equal knowledge, skills and abilities.
But once in every millennia there is that one person born that somehow manages to regress.
They actually get dumber and more idiotic as they age.
That is you.
@wilbur-aren’t you well educated for a cowardly, backstabbing troll with no guts and no brains. Now screw off loser.
Uh oh, Wilbur. I’ll bet you’re scared!
@opinionated-I see you are just as stupid and ignorant as ever. Your one and only goal is to disrupt the conversation on here because you are to damn dumb to take part in it.
@WILLLBURR-You sound just liek a ignorant WILLLBURR, your are just as stupid as a WILLLLBURR and must be a dumb a## libraterd jsut like a WILLLLBURR. You must just be a WILLLBURR.
Struck a nerve there, eh LVS?
Ah, perhaps a moment of illumination shone briefly in that tiny little mind of yours, where upon you
glimpsed the true depths of your philistinism.
But let me phrase it in a vernacular that you can comprehend.
You were born an idiot, over time you grew into more of an idiot and then finally devolved into a supreme dumbass.
Sadly, now you’re just a pathetic little man, with a pathetic little mind and about as creative and imaginative as a rock.
What I don’t understand is why the trolls only come out on the weekend?
Well maybe, they’re not trolls.
They just aren’t like the three pitiful and wretched people that post on here all day, everyday.
You know like that stupid and crazy old coot and the disconnected from reality, tin-foil hat wearing nut case and lastly the loud noise hating space cadet that never shuts up.
No, they’re not trolls maybe.
They’re just regular folks that get sick & tired of the incessant rancor, negativity and outright bullshit that spews from these three stooges.
@Anonymous-No, you are TROLLS. Just cowards, gutless wonders that do nothing by try to disrupt the conversation on here. That is why you havebeen banned before and you will be again. You are to stupid to stop. Now you have a BUTT buddy named WILLBURR.
Oh I wonder who those could be? LVS, Maybe, Philosophus? And this from something called Anonymous that pulls a comment out of its ass, not to share an observation, just to ironically & negatively blast the aforementioned 3. So what are you waiting for Anonymous? Jump into NIT, create a name, and start writing. Or do you just lurk to read everyone else’s thoughts? Putz.
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And with those well timed and typically simpleminded responses from the previously mentioned stupid & crazy old coot and the blithering fool & space cadet….
….I rest my case.
I bid all the rest of you good folks, a good evening.
You said 3 names and received 2 responses. Well just so you can add correctly, now all the simpleton have responded. Trolls are what people call bullies, they have no personality and they get great satisfaction from either calling other people names or just plain start a fight. Trolls are the real simpletons here.