Experts Available to Discuss Unemployment Rate Steady at 5.6 Percent in June.

TOPIC: The Labor Department reported the unemployment rate remained at 5.6 percent in June, according to an article by The Associated Press. Despite economists' expectations that payroll employment would increase by 250,000, employers added only 112,000 new payroll jobs last month. Experts predict the unemployment rate will decrease during the rest of the year, but emphasize it will be a slow process.

EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story:

Dr. Rajeev Dhawan is director of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University's Robinson College of Business. As director of the Center, Dhawan develops U.S., Southeast regional and local metro economy forecasts. Dhawan also serves as an advisor to educational institutions and local and state government agencies. As a business consultant, he has been commissioned to prepare economic impact reports, home price forecast models, and suggest public policy recommendations.

Magnus Lofstrom is an assistant professor of economics and political economy at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is a labor economist with an emphasis on studying policy relevant issues applying econometric tools. Some of Professor Lofstrom's specific research interests include immigration, self-employment, welfare, earnings inequality and education. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego in 1999. Prior to joining the faculty at UTD, he served as a researcher and taught at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) at the University of Bonn and at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Lofstrom also holds appointments as research fellow at IZA and research associate at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Professor Robert Nakosteen, of the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, School of Management, teaches Microeconomics, Statistics/Econometrics, and Business Forecasting. He has conducted research on the microeconometrics of labor markets.

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