Were not actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable toĪmong those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of persons marginally attached to These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they In August, the number of persons not in the labor force who currently want a job was 5.4 million, These individuals, who would have preferred full-time employment, were working part timeīecause their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs. The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.2 million, changed little inĪugust. The employment-population ratio was unchanged over the month at 60.4 In August, the labor force participation rate rose by 0.2 percentage point to 62.8 percent, afterīeing flat since March.
Long-term unemployed accounted for 20.3 percent of all unemployed persons. Term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more), at 1.3 million, edged up in August. (New entrants are unemployed persons with no previousīoth the number of persons unemployed less than 5 weeks, at 2.2 million, and the number of long. Number of new entrants edged up to 597,000. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)Īmong the unemployed, the number of job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs increasedīy 294,000 to 2.9 million in August, offsetting a decrease of 280,000 in July. Teenagers (12.2 percent), Blacks (5.3 percent), and Hispanics (4.9 percent) showed little change The jobless rates for adult women (3.2 percent), Percent), and Asians (3.1 percent) rose in August. Both measures are little different fromĪ year earlier, when the unemployment rate was 3.7 percent and the number of unemployed personsĪmong the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (3.7 percent), Whites (3.4 Unemployed persons increased by 514,000 to 6.4 million. The unemployment rate rose by 0.3 percentage point to 3.8 percent in August, and the number of For more information about theĬoncepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical Note. Measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. The household survey measures laborįorce status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. In health care, leisure and hospitality, social assistance, and construction. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 187,000 in August, and the unemployment rate rose toģ.8 percent, the U.S. Transmission of material in this news release is embargoed until USDL-23-1893
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