True Unemployment Rate 2024. Unemployment rate rose to 4.3% in july and hiring slowed, adding to signs of a broader downturn in what has been a solid u.s. From february 2023 to february 2024, unemployment rates increased in 28 states, decreased in 3 states, and changed little in 19 states and the district of columbia.

In the fourth quarter of 2023, the unemployment rate averaged 3.8 percent, slightly higher than the rate of 3.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2022. Unemployment with basic education, female (% of female labor force with basic education) share of youth not in education, employment or training, female (% of female youth population).