The unemployment rate in Delaware was unchanged in June.<\/p>\n
Last month\u2019s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4% the same as May, but lower than the national rate of 4.1%.<\/p>\n
June\u2019s unemployment rate was also higher than a year ago when it was 3.8%.<\/p>\n
Area unemployment rate jumped last month. All were higher with Newark up more than 1.5% percent while the others hovered around a 1% increase. Sussex was up just over .5%.<\/p>\n
The seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs numbers were down last month to 492,800. That was at 493,500 in May.<\/p>\n
In the last year the state has seen a net gain of 5,700 jobs, a 1.2% increase. That growth rate is higher than the national rate of 1.1% during the same period.<\/p>\n
Even though the seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs numbers dropped by 700, during the first half of the year, they grew by 2,000.<\/p>\n
The Private Education and Health Services industry is driving that increase, adding 1,300 jobs. In the last year it 2,900 jobs or just over 50 percent of the total number.<\/p>\n
Last month, Government and Manufacturing were the industries with the most job growth while Trade, Transportation and Utilities and Professional and Business Services saw the biggest decreases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The unemployment rate in Delaware was unchanged in June. Last month\u2019s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4% the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[84,1371,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-21114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-jobs","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}