{"id":107774,"date":"2022-04-15T16:47:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T23:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=107774"},"modified":"2022-04-15T16:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T23:47:34","slug":"la-county-unemployment-rate-falls-below-6-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2022\/04\/15\/la-county-unemployment-rate-falls-below-6-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"LA County unemployment rate falls below 6% in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/unemployment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101018\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/unemployment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/unemployment.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/unemployment-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles County&#8217;s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 5.8% in March, down from a revised 6.3% in February, according to figures released Friday, April 15, by the state Employment Development Department.<\/p>\n<p>The 5.8% rate was also down from the 10.5% rate in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In Orange County, where seasonally adjusted figures were not available, the March unemployment rate was 3.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.9% in March, down from 5.3% in February and below the 8.4% rate from March 2021. The comparable estimates for the nation were 3.6% in March, 3.8% in February and 6% in March of last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EDD, total nonfarm employment in Los Angeles County increased by 13,300 jobs between February and March to reach nearly 4.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The education and health services sector added 6,600 jobs, while the leisure and hospitality sector added 5,800 positions.<\/p>\n<p>Year over year, nonfarm employment increased by 299,100 jobs between March 2021 and last month, according to the EDD.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles County&#8217;s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 5.8% in March, down from a revised 6.3% in February, according to figures released Friday, April 15, by the state Employment Development Department. The 5.8% rate was also down from the 10.5% rate in March 2021. In Orange County, where seasonally adjusted figures were not available, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":101018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107775,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107774\/revisions\/107775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}