The statewide unemployment rate went down slightly in the month of March.
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry reported that Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate went down by a tenth of a percentage point between February and March to bring the rate to 7.3 percent. Last year at this time, the unemployment rate was 9.5 percent as the Labor and Industry department was beginning to see the effects of the pandemic on unemployment. The national unemployment rate went down two-tenths of a percentage point from February to 6.0 percent in March. The national rate was up by 1.6 points over the year.
Pennsylvania’s labor workforce increased by 1,000 over the month to 6,337,000. The number of total non-farm jobs increased by 24,000 in a month’s time to 5,678,500. Jobs increased in 10 of the 11 industry super sectors, with the largest increases seen in education and health services.
Unemployment statistics for Indiana County are expected later this month.
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