The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry has released the unemployment statistics for March and we’re beginning to see the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the work force at a county level.
Indiana County’s unemployment rate went up 1.4 percentage points from February to 6.9 percent. The department is saying, however, that this is just the early statistics for the community, as the March survey period was March 8th to the 14th, which was just before most of the Coronavirus-related business and school closures that happened in the second half of the month. The statewide unemployment rate also saw a significant jump in the month of March, going up 1.3 percentage points to 6.0 percent. The national rate went up nine-tenths of a percentage point to 4.4 percent.
The total number of non-farm jobs in March went unchanged from February at 32,300. The seasonally adjusted labor force went down by 100 to 39,400 in March.
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