INLAND EMPIRE – (INT) – The region’s labor market has been a balancing act this summer.

A loss of 13,200 jobs from June to July was mostly in educational services.

Several other sectors tried to make-up the difference including construction, business services, leisure and hospitality, trade, transportation, and utilities and manufacturing.

Those shifts brought down July’s Inland Empire unemployment to 4.6%.

The State Department of Employment estimated that 93,500 people were looking for work in July, slightly less than in June.

Story Date: August 21, 2018