U.S. unemployment rate in July is 3.5%

Xinhua News Agency, Washington, August 5th (Reporter Xu Yuan) According to data released by the US Department of Labor on the 5th, the U.S. unemployment rate in July this year was 3.5%, and the number of new employment in non -agricultural sector was 528,000.

Data show that the U.S. unemployment rate decreased by 0.1 percentage points from the previous month to 3.5%, and the number of unemployed fell to 5.7 million.However, the monthly labor participation rate decreased by 0.1 percentage points to 62.1%month -on -month, and the supply and demand relationship of the labor market was still tense.

In the month, 2.2 million people in the United States were still unable to work due to the shutdown or closure of the new crown epidemic. There were still 548,000 people who could not go out to find jobs due to the impact of the epidemic.According to the industry, the number of employment of leisure and hotel industry in the month increased by 96,000, which was still 1.2 million less than before the epidemic.

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