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Indiana’s unemployment rate increased slightly in August to 2.8 percent. The state’s unemployment rate is still near record lows for the last decade. It’s also below the national rate of 3.7 percent.
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Jobs gains ran just slightly ahead of job losses in August, which is consistent with the recent month-to-month trend of modest-but-steady improvement toward the recovery of the millions of jobs lost during the pandemic.
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The total number of employed people in Indiana hit a decade high in July, new preliminary federal estimates show. At the same time, the state's unemployed population increased slightly.
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The past few months has given workers more power in the labor market. In June, Indiana had about four active job seekers for every 10 job openings, according to new federal estimates released Thursday.
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Indiana recorded a 2.2 percent unemployment rate in March. It’s the third lowest rate in the country and yet another record low for the state.
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There are mixed signals in the new Michigan employment numbers that were released Wednesday.
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A multi-million-dollar spending bill to support the state’s unemployment insurance system has received the governor's signature.
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As record numbers of people have quit their jobs — some for better ones — some pundits have taken to calling it “the great resignation.” The state’s Department of Workforce Development says that’s not exactly accurate — it’s more of a “great reassessment.”
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Indiana continues to break state records for low unemployment as it fell to just 2.4 percent in January. But there’s a flip side to that statistic: the rate of Hoosiers 16 and older participating in the workforce stayed flat.
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The Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget says January’s unemployment rate declined by two-tenths of a percentage point to 4.9%