(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE—In this file photo from May 5, 2021, a vehicle speeds by a hiring sign offering a $500 bonus outside a McDonalds restaurant, in Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pa. Pennsylvania will resume work search requirements in July for hundreds of thousands of people receiving unemployment compensation, a top Wolf administration official said Monday, May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, that department released its preliminary employment situation report for June of 2025 on Friday. The unemployment rate in Pennsylvania went to 4% after going up a tenth of a percentage point. That unemployment rate in Pennsylvania was below or at the national average unemployment rate for the twenty-sixth month in a row. The unemployment rate in the United States during June of 2025 was 4.1%, dropping one tenth of a percentage point.