{"id":109580,"date":"2022-07-22T13:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T20:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=109580"},"modified":"2022-07-22T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T20:24:37","slug":"la-county-unemployment-rate-rises-slightly-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2022\/07\/22\/la-county-unemployment-rate-rises-slightly-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"LA County unemployment rate rises slightly in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unemployed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92611\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unemployed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unemployed.jpg 413w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unemployed-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Los Angeles County&#8217;s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose slightly to 5.3% in June, up from a revised 5.2% in May, according to figures released Friday by the state Employment Development Department.<\/p>\n<p>The 5.3% rate was well below the 9.7% rate in June 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In Orange County, where seasonally adjusted figures were not available, the June unemployment rate was 2.9%, up from 2.4% in May.<\/p>\n<p>Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.2% in June, down from 4.3% in May and below the 7.9% rate from June 2021. The comparable estimates for the nation were 3.6% in June, 3.6% in May and 5.9% in June of last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EDD, total nonfarm employment in Los Angeles County increased by 9,500 jobs between May and June to reach more than 4.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The leisure and hospitality sector led the way by adding 5,200 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Los Angeles County&#8217;s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose slightly to 5.3% in June, up from a revised 5.2% in May, according to figures released Friday by the state Employment Development Department. The 5.3% rate was well below the 9.7% rate in June 2021. In Orange County, where seasonally adjusted figures were not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92611,"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\/109580"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109581,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109580\/revisions\/109581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}