nonfarm payroll employment increased by 113,000 in July [View All]

[papau]

(seas) Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of all civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers
8.4 8.5 8.2 8.2 8.2 8.4 8.5
(not seasonaly adjusted)
2006 9.2 9.0 8.5 7.9 7.9 8.7 8.8


Birth/death guess change between years
2005 Jul -72
2006 Jul -57 so 25000 more jobs are claimed this year for July than were claimed last year due to the birth/death adjustment.




http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Friday, August 4, 2006.


THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: JULY 2006


Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 113,000 in July, and the
unemployment rate rose to 4.8 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the
U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Job gains occurred in several service-
providing industries, including professional and business services, health care,
and food services. Employment also rose in mining. Average hourly earnings
rose by 7 cents, or 0.4 percent, in July.

Unemployment (Household Survey Data)

The number of unemployed persons edged up to 7.2 million in July, and the
unemployment rate rose to 4.8 percent. A year earlier, the number of unemployed
persons was 7.5 million and the jobless rate was 5.0 percent.

Over the month, the unemployment rates for most major worker groups--adult
women (4.2 percent), teenagers (15.5 percent), whites (4.1 percent), blacks
(9.5 percent), and Hispanics (5.3 percent)--showed little or no change. After
declining in June, the jobless rate for adult men increased to 4.2 percent in
July. The unemployment rate for Asians was 2.7 percent, not seasonally
adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

Following a decline in June, the number of long-term unemployed persons--those
unemployed 27 weeks or longer--returned to its May level of 1.3 million. These
long-term unemployed accounted for 18.6 percent of total unemployment, about the
same as in May. (See table A-9.)

After trending down for several months, the number of unemployed persons who
were reentrants to the labor force increased to 2.4 million in July. This group
accounted for 32.7 percent of total unemployment, up from 30.0 percent in June.
(See table A-8.)