(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 today from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I), they released its preliminary employment situation report for September of 2025 today. This delay in data is the direct result of the federal government shutdown that began on October 1st, 2025. From August of 2025, the unemployment rate in Pennsylvania was up one-tenth of a percentage point over the month to 4.1 percent in September of 2025, which was the 29th month in a row that the rate of unemployment in Pennsylvania was below or at the national unemployment average. The unemployment rate in the United States of 4.4 percent was also up one-tenth of a point over the same time period.