Colorado adds jobs, but unemployment rate ticks up in August
DENVER — Colorado added 5,600 nonfarm jobs during the month of August while the unemployment rate bumped up above 3% for the first time in 15 months.
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DENVER — Colorado added 5,600 nonfarm jobs during the month of August while the unemployment rate bumped up above 3% for the first time in 15 months.
Colorado employers ramped up their hiring in August, but it wasn't enough to keep the state's unemployment rate from rising above 3% for the first time in 15 months.
The unemployment rate in July was up in Colorado and each of the four counties in the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado but remained below or near the national jobless rate.
The unemployment rate in July was up in Colorado and each of the four counties in the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado but remained below or near the national jobless rate.
Colorado added a paltry 800 jobs between June and July, and could have gone negative absent strong government hiring, mostly from schools working to get back towards pre-pandemic staffing levels, according to a new report.