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IndiaJuly 2024 Jobs Report
The unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent in July, and non-farm payroll employment edged up by 114,000. Employment continued to trend up in health care, in construction, and in transportation and warehousing, while information lost jobs. The unemployment rate rose by 0.2 percentage point to 4.3 percent in July, and the number ofunemployed people increased by 352,000 to 7.2 million.
The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) changed little at million in July. This measure 1.5 is up from 1.2 million a year earlier. The long-term unemployed accounted for 21.6 percent of all unemployed people in July.
Total Jobs Added*
(* Non-Farm Jobs Only)
Unemployment Rate
( Increased .2% since June)
USA Industry-Specific Updates
– July 2024
(+) Means Jobs Added MoM (-) Means Jobs Decreased MoM
+9,000
Social Assistance
Job growth slower than the average monthly gain over the prior 12 months +23,000
+25,000
Construction
Specialty trade contractors +19,000
+55,000
Healthcare
Home healthcare services +22,000
Hospitals +20,000
Nursing and residential care facilities +9,000
+14,000
Transportation and warehousing
Couriers and messengers +11,000
Warehousing and storage +11,000
+17,000
Government
Overall job growth slowed down in recent months
Other Sectors
Information employment declined by 20,000 in July but has changed little over the year
Among those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached to the labor force, at 1.6 million, was little changed in July. These individuals wanted and were available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not looked for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
Source: The US Bureau of Labor Statistics