April jobless rates down over the year in 269 of 387 metro areas; payroll jobs up in 327

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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Economic News Release USDL-16-1095

Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary

For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Wednesday, June 1, 2016

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METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- APRIL 2016


Unemployment rates were lower in April than a year earlier in 269 of the 387 metropolitan areas, higher in 94 areas, and unchanged in 24 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Twenty-five areas had jobless rates of less than 3.0 percent and seven areas had rates of at least 10.0 percent. Nonfarm payroll employment increased over the year in 327 metropolitan areas, decreased in 54 areas, and was unchanged in 6 areas. The national unemployment rate in April was 4.7 percent, not seasonally adjusted, down from 5.1 percent a year earlier.
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Metropolitan Division Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted)

In April, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 36 of the 38 metropolitan divisions over the year and was unchanged in Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead, Mass., and Nashua, N.H.-Mass. The largest over-the-year increase in employment among the metropolitan divisions occurred in New York-Jersey City-White Plains, N.Y.-N.J. (+145,600), followed by Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas (+111,900), and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, Calif. (+106,800). (See table 4.)

The largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment among the metropolitan divisions occurred in Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas (+4.7 percent), followed by Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town, Mass.-N.H. (+4.4 percent), and San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, Calif. (+4.1 percent).

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The Regional and State Employment and Unemployment news release for May is scheduled to be released on Friday, June 17, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. (EDT). The Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment news release for May is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, June 29, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. (EDT).

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1. Yeah, we all have minimum wage Jobs now. n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Stress Reduction Kit. Bang Head Here.

[whatthehey]

3. And yet strangely the median continues to rise

in both nominal and real terms. Is minimum wage $823 a week now? What does the median look like in inflation adjusted terms compared to pre-recession data?

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t01.htm

[fasttense]

5. Barely an increase. It could all be due to inflation.

If Greenspan had kept his dirty hands off the inflation numbers, we would know. But since he f**k it all up, all we know is what it cost to barely survive.

[whatthehey]

7. That's why they show it in constant dollars, and all the data belie your claim

It's the same tired doomer flowchart crap:

There are no jobs!

Look at the data on job gains...

Well thery're all crap jobs then!

Look at the data on median pay gains...

Well it's all inflation then!

Look at the constant dollar scale data...

It's all fake to make Obama look goood then!

Sure a seamlesss conspiracy of thousands of civil servants of all political stripes, after several years of making the same guy look bad as the same data collected the same way declined. Mmmkay...

Everybody's working multiple jobs to barely survive and that inflqates the numbers then!

That's 4.9% of the population, a number declining very slowly since the 90s and unaffected by recessions or boom times

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/07/art3full.pdf
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat36.htm

Well you're ignoring the millions who are struggling and pretending everything is perfect then!

No, improving (supported by data) and perfect (a silly strawman) are not synonymous. Millions are certainly struggling, and yet millions also are not. It's not the 1% who are seeing consumer spending on durables go up at a record pace last month, or filling thousands of new sports bar franchises with 7$ beers and $10 wings.

[LanternWaste]

4. We do? I'll need to rebudget and return years of wages of my employer.

We do? I'll need to rebudget and return years of wages of my employer.

[fasttense]

6. So, you were the one who got the only non-minimum wage job out there.

Congrats. Too bad there aren't enough to go around.

Yeah, we have such a robust economy that people are willing to vote for Trump...anything to get out of this continuing mess we call the US economy. Even voting for a fascists seem OK if it's going to put food on the table.