PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: The state turned in sluggish employment growth in June, adding 19,100 jobs and maintaining a 7.5 percent unemployment rate that was unchanged from May.
“We’re not going backwards,” said Frank Gamrat, senior economist at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy, Castle Shannon.
“It’s growing; it’s just not growing as quickly as we would like it to,” he said.
Employment gains were led by the education and health services sector, which added 17,100 jobs across the state last month, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the Department of Labor & Industry… (more)
