Payrolls Rose in 32 U.S. States in July, Led by California

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

Payrolls increased in 32 U.S. states in July, and the unemployment rate climbed in 28, indicating progress in the labor market remains uneven.

California led the nation with a 38,100 gain in payrolls, followed by Georgia with 30,900 more jobs, figures from the Labor Department showed today in Washington.

Economic growth is projected to accelerate in the final six months of 2013 as the effects of federal budget cuts and higher taxes fade and job- and home-price gains spread across wider swathes of the U.S. Faster hiring would help spur consumer spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of the economy.

“There’s demand for workers,” Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group in Pittsburgh, said before the report. “We’ll see some pickup in the economy as the fiscal drag fades in the second half.”

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-19/payrolls-rose-in-32-u-s-states-in-july-led-by-california.html

[pinto]

1. I really wish the Labor Dept. would report payroll (job) growth or loss as a percentage.

Same as they report unemployment data.

[donnasgirl]

2. I really wish

they would report if it was full or part time workers being hired.

[pinto]

3. That's a big part of the picture. They do track those new jobs in re: full/part time.

I hear it mentioned on TV employment news snips but I haven't gone to the DOL website to search for the data.

[Kingofalldems]

4. That couldn't be, Obama is a communist