The unemployment rate remains unchanged at 3.8%
MADRID, 6 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -
The US economy created 336,000 new non-farm jobs last September, up from the 227,000 new jobs created in August, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.8%, according to the data. published this Friday by the Department of Labor.
In this way, the US labor market continues to offer signs of strength and has created employment for 33 consecutive months. Hiring expanded in the leisure and hotel, government, scientific, technical, health, professional services and social assistance sectors. In this way, September has been above the average of 267,000 for the last 12 months.
In addition, the Department of Labor has reported that it has revised upward the data for the previous two months, increasing July's data by 79,000 jobs, from 157,000 to 236,000, and August's data by 40,000, from 187,000 to 227,000. . With these revisions, 119,000 jobs emerged compared to what was previously reported.
In the case of the unemployment rate, the figure stood at 3.8% in September, unchanged from the previous month. Thus, the United States unemployment rate has fluctuated between 3.4% and 3.8% so far in 2023.
The number of unemployed reached 6.360 million in the ninth month of the year, compared to 6.355 million in August, including 1.216 million long-term unemployed (those without work for 27 weeks or more), which represented 19.1% of the total unemployed.
For its part, the number of people employed part-time for economic reasons fell by 156,000, to 4.065 million in September. Likewise, the labor force participation rate stood at 62.8%, unchanged.
According to data published this Thursday, initial applications for unemployment benefits in the United States reached a total of 207,000 applications last week, which represents an increase of 2,000 people compared to the previous mark.
Recipients of unemployment benefits totaled 1,664 million in the week ending September 23, which represents a slight decline in the number of beneficiaries of 1,000 people compared to the 1,665 million of the previous week. In the same comparable period of 2022, citizens with benefits reached 1,302 million.
The main increases occurred in the States of California (2,712), Ohio (1,422), Michigan (1,282), Alabama (870) and Missouri (532), while the most pronounced decreases were noted in Georgia (-1,853), Carolina of the South (-1,199), New York (-1,149), Indiana (-705) and Florida (-485).
