{"id":110792,"date":"2022-09-16T13:41:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T20:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=110792"},"modified":"2022-09-16T13:41:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T20:41:05","slug":"la-county-unemployment-rate-rises-slightly-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2022\/09\/16\/la-county-unemployment-rate-rises-slightly-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"LA County unemployment rate rises slightly in August"},"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 rose to 5.2% in August, up from a revised 4.9% in July, according to the latest figures released by the state Employment Development Department.<\/p>\n<p>The 5.2% rate was well below the 8.5% rate in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.1% in August, up from 3.9% in July and below the 7% rate from August 2021. The comparable estimates for the nation were 3.7% in August, 3.5% in July and 5.2% in August of last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EDD, total nonfarm employment in Los Angeles County increased by 8,000 jobs between July and August to reach about 4.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The education and health services sector led the way by adding about 4,400 positions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles County&#8217;s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 5.2% in August, up from a revised 4.9% in July, according to the latest figures released by the state Employment Development Department. The 5.2% rate was well below the 8.5% rate in August 2021. Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.1% in August, up from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[16,1499,1496],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110792"}],"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=110792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110793,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110792\/revisions\/110793"}],"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=110792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}