{"id":80679,"date":"2025-08-19T19:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80679\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:42:07","slug":"indianas-unemployment-rate-continues-to-outperform-national-labor-force-stagnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80679\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana’s unemployment rate continues to outperform national, labor force stagnant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana’s unemployment rate has improved from this time last year, according to new preliminary data. This also makes the fifth consecutive month<\/a> the state’s rate has been recorded below the national average. <\/p>\n

The state\u2019s unemployment rate currently stands at 3.6 percent, down from 4 percent in July 2024.<\/p>\n

The national unemployment rate for last month was higher than Indiana\u2019s at 4 percent \u2014 a trend that has continued since March of this year. Before that, the state\u2019s unemployment rate was higher than the national average for six months.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: What does Indiana’s monthly employment report measure? Here’s what you should know<\/a><\/p>\n

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Indiana\u2019s labor force participation rate remained the same from June at 63.7 percent before seasonal adjustments. This rate measures the percentage of working-age Hoosiers who are working or actively looking for employment.<\/p>\n

Timoria is our labor and employment reporter. Contact her at\u00a0tcunningham@wfyi.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana’s unemployment rate has improved from this time last year, according to new preliminary data. This also makes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-80679","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\/80679","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=80679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}