Business & Tech
Job Fair Scheduled Monday
A U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report released Friday indicated the number of Americans in May who were unemployed for 27 weeks or more increased by 361,000 to more than 6 million. A job fair coming Monday may help locally.
According to the Employment Situation Summary report released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of Americans in May who were unemployed for 27 weeks or more increased by 361,000 to more than 6 million.
More than 8 million Americans are considered “involuntary part-time workers,” meaning that they are working part time because their hours have been cut back or they were simply unable to find a full-time job.
And, the report noted, 2.2 million people who wanted and were available for work were not in the labor force, even though they had sought jobs sometime within the past year. These people, considered “marginally attached to the labor force,” were not counted among the officially unemployed since they had not searched for work in the month before the survey.
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Those numbers come at the same time the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that only 54,000 jobs were added to the economy in May, the lowest growth in payroll since September 2010.
More than 800,000 of “marginally attached” people reported that they were discouraged about seeking work because they believe there are no jobs available for them. Of the “marginally attached,” 1.4 million had stopped seeking work because they were attending school or dealing with family responsibilities.
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The news is out just before a major job fair in St. Louis, the sixth time for the event sponsored by U.S. Rep. Lacy Clay (D-St. Louis) and Harris-Stowe State University. That event is Monday and expects to feature dozens of employers, such as Express Scripts, World Wide Technology and Schnucks in Maryland Heights; Best Buy, with locations in Brentwood, Crestwood, Chesterfield, St. Peters, Manchester, South County, Fenton and St. Charles among others; the area casinos from Lemay, Maryland Heights an St. Charles; and UPS, with locations in Maryland Heights, Creve Coeur, Olivette and St. Charles.
Doors open for that job fair at 9:30 a.m. Monday at Harris-Stowe State University’s Emerson Physical Education and Performing Arts Center, 3026 Laclede Avenue, St. Louis.