The rate is at its lowest since the quarter ended in July 2015. Commerce is said to have played a major role, bringing 566 thousand workers to the labor market.
As for the employed population, a growth of 1.8 percent was observed in the second quarter this year, reaching 102 million people. Year on year, the expansion stood at 6.3 percent, after four months on the wane.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market led to a record high in joblessness in 20 of the 27 states in the country.