(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release in Harrisburg from The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I), they released its preliminary employment situation report for February of 2026 today. The unemployment rate in Pennsylvania was down one-tenth of a percentage point over the month to 4.2 percent in February. The unemployment rate in the United States increased one-tenth of a point from January to 4.4 percent over that same period.