Updated at 12:40 p.m., Friday, August 17, 2007
July jobless rate in Hawaii rises slightly to 2.6%
Advertiser Staff
The state's unemployment rate for July rose slightly from the previous month, but Hawai'i continues to have one of the lowest jobless rates in the country.The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate last month was 2.6 percent, a 0.2 percentage point increase from June and the same period last year, according to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. The increase dropped Hawai'i from the No. 1 spot that it shared with Montana in June to No. 2 in the country.
Idaho now leads the nation with a 2.3 percent unemployment rate. Nationally, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased from 4.5 percent in June to 4.6 percent in July.
