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July Employment Report Reveals More Private Sector Jobs But No Change In Jobless Rate

Steve Baker
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Indiana’s private sector added nearly 10 thousand jobs last month.  Yet the unemployment rate failed to drop for the fourth consecutive month.

The Hoosier private sector has added jobs for ten consecutive months, surging again in July with 99 hundred jobs created – led by the manufacturing sector, which added more than five thousand jobs. 

But the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5.9 percent. 

That’s because the state’s labor force continues to swell, with about 2,500 people rejoining the job hunt last month. 

Over the past year, Indiana’s labor force has grown by more than 54,000 thousand people, a rate eight times larger than the national average. 

Brandon Smith is excited to be working for public radio in Indiana. He has previously worked in public radio as a reporter and anchor in mid-Missouri for KBIA Radio out of Columbia. Prior to that, he worked for WSPY Radio in Plano, Illinois as a show host, reporter, producer and anchor. His first job in radio was in another state capitol, in Jefferson City, Missouri, as a reporter for three radio stations around Missouri. Brandon graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Journalism in 2010, with minors in political science and history. He was born and raised in Chicago.
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