Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 209,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. After declining earlier in the year, the unemployment rate has shown little movement in recent months.  

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (4 percent), adult women (4 percent), teenagers (13.2 percent), Whites (3.8 percent), Blacks (7.4 percent), Asians (3.8 percent) and Hispanics (5.1 percent) showed little or no change in July. Among the unemployed, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was little changed at 1.8 million in July and accounted for 25.9 percent of the unemployed.