Workforce Investment Area 3

June 2008:

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment up 300
•    Goods-producing sector up 100
•    Service-providing sector up 300
•    Total unemployment up 400
•    Unemployment rate up four-tenths of a percentage point to 4.6 percent

Over the Year:

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment down 800
•    Goods-producing sector up 400
•    Service-providing sector down 1,100
•    Total unemployment up 600
•    Unemployment rate up six-tenths of a percentage point