Idaho’s April unemployment rate remains at 3.7%
Idaho’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was unchanged between March and April, remaining at 3.7%.
April’s labor force increased by 494 people to 1,012,142 while the labor force participation rate – the percentage of people 16 years of age or older who are either employed or looking for work – decreased by 0.1 percentage point between March and April, down to 63.6%.
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What is unemployment insurance (UI)?
UI is a program for the accumulation of funds paid by employers to be used for payments of UI to workers during periods of unemployment, which are beyond their control.
The Idaho Department of Labor gathers UI data to study, analyze, model and forecast the economic impact of unemployment on the state’s economy.