{"id":247609,"date":"2026-07-20T11:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247609\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:48:06","slug":"pennsylvania-unemployment-rate-falls-to-4-1-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247609\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Unemployment Rate Falls To 4.1 Percent |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Unemployment-Rate-Arrow.jpeg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-614929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Unemployment-Rate-Arrow-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"  \/><\/a>HARRISBURG \u2014 The state\u2019s jobless rate fell one-tenth of a point to 4.1 percent in June. The figure comes from the preliminary employment situation report for\u00a0June 2026.\u00a0 The state of Labor and Industry says the rate is below the national average.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers show Pennsylvania\u2019s civilian labor force increased by 17,000 to a record 6.6 million.\u00a0 Unemployment fell by 6,000. Pennsylvania also added 1,000 nonfarm jobs, reaching a record 6.2 million.\u00a0 Leisure and hospitality posted the largest monthly gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG \u2014 The state\u2019s jobless rate fell one-tenth of a point to 4.1 percent in June. The figure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-247609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}