Ohio Micropolitan Areas Won the Most Projects in the Nation
March 14, 2023
The U.S. unemployment rate was 3.6% in February 2023, edging up from 3.4% in January. Nonagricultural wage and salary employment increased 311,000 over the month and the labor force participation rate inched up to 62.5%. U.S. job openings totaled 10.8M in January 2023, down from a revised 11.2M in December 2022. Quits (3.9M) decreased while layoffs and discharges (1.7M) rose during the month. Initial jobless claims for the week ended March 4 rose by 21,000 from the previous week to a total of 211,000. Continuing claims rose by 69,000 to a total of 1.72M during the week ending February 25, the most since November 2021.
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