The unemployment rate for the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area decreased one-tenth of a percentage point from June to 4.7% in July, according to data from the state Department of Labor and Industry. The rate is down three-tenths of a percentage point from July 2025.<\/p>\n
The labor force for the region \u2014 consisting of Lackawanna, Luzerne and Wayne counties \u2014 increased by 400 over the month and 5,100 over the year, state officials said.<\/p>\n
Employment figures increased by 700 over the month and 5,800 over July 2025, officials added.<\/p>\n
The unemployment rate for Lackawanna County dropped two-tenths of a percentage point from June, to 3.8%, according to state data. The rate is down nine-tenths of a percentage point from July 2025.<\/p>\n
Luzerne County\u2019s rate dropped two-tenths of a percentage point over the month, to 4.6%, and seven-tenths of a percentage point over the year, state officials said.<\/p>\n
At 3.9% in July, down two-tenths of a percentage point over the month, Pennsylvania\u2019s unemployment rate dipped below 4% for the first time since October 2024, according to state data.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania\u2019s labor force increased 8,000 over the month to a record high 6,6451,000 in July, state officials said. Employment also rose to a record high while unemployment dropped 10,000 over the month.<\/p>\n
Nationally, the unemployment rate for the United States dropped one-tenth of a percentage point in July to 4.1%, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The unemployment rate for the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area decreased one-tenth of a percentage point from June to 4.7%…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[60,201,182,803,28,178,180,179,6519],"class_list":["post-276816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-business","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-hzs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276816","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=276816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}