Tag: Ryan Gedney
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Colorado’s unemployment ticks up, but still below national average
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Colorado’s unemployment rate ticked up slightly in December to 3.4%, but it still remains lower than the U.S. average, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The state’s jobless rate stood at 3.3% in November. The U.S. average remained the same from month-to-month at 3.7%. “The rising Colorado rate was due to a…
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Colorado’s unemployment rate creeps up to 3.2% in September
Colorado’s unemployment rate has been rising slightly in the past few months, but the state’s top economist has cautioned against reading too far into marginal monthly increases. The state also saw the addition of 1,500 nonfarm payroll jobs in September, but the number of unemployed people rose by 3,600. The latest jobs report from the…
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Colorado unemployment climbs slightly, but still near record low
Colorado’s unemployment rate ticked up slightly in July, but remained well below the national average and marked the 15th month in a row it has stayed below 3%. The rate stood at 2.8% last month, just one-tenth of a percentage point higher than the 2.7% rate logged in June, according to the Colorado Department of…
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Colorado unemployment rate remains flat in June, private sector shows stark gains
The state unemployment rate stayed flat anew at 2.8% last month, while the share of Coloradans participating in the workforce stood just shy of pre-pandemic levels. Released Friday, the Colorado Employment Situation report for June 2023 highlighted industry and labor force statistics estimates from the state’s Department of Labor and Employment, and it yielded a…
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Colorado’s unemployment rate holds steady at 2.8%
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The government sector has now returned to pre-pandemic employment levels, the latest jobs report from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment shows, while the state’s unemployment rate held steady at 2.8% for May. The number of unemployed people rose by 600 from April to May, reaching 90,000, although the unemployment rate remains unchanged. Colorado’s…
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Unemployment rose slightly in February across Colorado
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s unemployment rate is on a streak, staying below 3% for 10 consecutive months. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose by one-tenth of a percentage point, reaching 2.9%, in February according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The number of unemployed individuals…
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Colorado unemployment matches record-low, pre-pandemic level
Colorado’s unemployment rate matched the record-low rate of 2.8% in January, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. It’s the most recent information available, and was released Monday. That rate remained steady between December and January while the state added 800 new jobs in that time, according to the department, which also released…
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Fact check: There really are two jobs for every unemployed person in Colorado
There are, indeed, two jobs available for every unemployed individual in Colorado, as Gov. Jared Polis said in his State of the State address last week — but it’s unclear what level of quality and or what industry these jobs are most likely in. Polis said there are “two available jobs for every unemployed person” in…
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Colorado unemployment level drops slightly on strength of education and healthcare jobs growth
Colorado’s unemployment level dropped slightly in November to 3.5%, which caps a year of mostly steady decline from the 4.4% level a year ago, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment Friday. That’s still below the national unemployment rate average of 3.7% last month. A state economist pointed to the strong job growth…
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Colorado unemployment continues downward slide
Colorado’s unemployment rate continued the downward trend it has been on for all of 2022, sliding a tenth of a percentage point to 3.3% in July, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported Friday. That’s the 13th consecutive month of flat or dropping unemployment levels in Colorado. The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%…