April 04, 2023
From February 2022 to February 2023, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 46 states and was essentially unchanged in 4 states and the District of Columbia.
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April 03, 2023
New York had the lowest job openings rate in January 2023, at 4.5 percent. An additional three states and the District of Columbia had job openings rates under 6.0 percent: District of Columbia (5.5 percent), Connecticut (5.5 percent), California (5.6 percent), and North Dakota (5.7 percent).
March 31, 2023
There were 18,510 eye-related injury or illness cases that resulted in at least one day away from work in 2020, leading to an incidence rate of 1.7 cases per 10,000 full-time workers. The number of cases decreased 15.6 percent from 2019, while the 2020 incidence rate was down 10.5 percent from the previous year.
March 30, 2023
In August 2022, 1.6 million or 34 percent of Gulf War-era II veterans were current or past members of the Reserve or National Guard. This group had an unemployment rate of 3.2 percent, little changed from a year earlier. The unemployment rate for Gulf War-era II veterans who had never been members of the Reserve or National Guard declined by 2.1 percentage points to 1.9 percent.
March 29, 2023
Atlantic City-Hammonton, New Jersey, had the largest jobless rate decrease over the year ended January 2023 (−2.6 percentage points). It was followed by Rockford, Illinois, which had a decrease of 2.5 percentage points, and Farmington, New Mexico, which had a decrease of 2.0 percentage points. In total, 59 metropolitan areas had unemployment rate decreases of 1.0 percentage point or more.
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