Jobs increased by 5,300 year-over-year

HONOLULU - The Hawai‘i State Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT) today announced that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for July was 2.9 percent, the same as in June. In July, 651,700 persons were employed and 19,250 were unemployed, for a total seasonally adjusted labor force of 670,950 statewide. Nationally, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.3 percent in July, up from 4.1 percent in June.

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