Funding delay forces thousands of low-income seniors out of jobs<\/a><\/p>\n“After a slow start to 2025, job growth in June and July brought the Washington employment landscape back to the overall story of continuing, but slowing, growth,” said Anneliese Vance-Sherman, chief labor economist at the Employment Security Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n
From June to July 2025, the number of people unemployed statewide increased by 500, the state said in a press release. That number went from 180,500 to 181,000. Some counties reported a higher unemployment rate than the state’s 4.5%.<\/p>\n
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According to the Employment Security Department, private sector employment has increased by 0.3%. In contrast, public sector employment is down by 0.8%, compared to last year.<\/p>\n
From July 2024 to July 2025, there have been job gains and losses across several industries:<\/p>\n
GainsPrivate sector employment – up 9,900 jobs since 2024Education and health services – up 16,600 jobs since 2024Transportation, warehousing and utilities – up 8,200 jobs since 2024\u00a0Information – up 4,100 jobs since 2024\u00a0Losses\u00a0Construction – down 11,300 jobs since 2024Manufacturing – down 3,000 since 2024 <\/p>\n
Washington’s labor force in July 2025 was 4,024,900, according to the department. This is a 8,300 decrease from June 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Layoffs and labor force participation are not necessarily connected,” the press release said. “When people are laid off but still seeking work, they remain a part of the labor force. A drop in labor force means people have left work and have not been seeking employment for more than four weeks.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
More information on the state’s employment report and other monthly employment reports can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state reported 10,800 jobs added in July by businesses and 11,700 in the public sector. OLYMPIA, Wash.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-71076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}