Department of Workforce Development Spokesman Joe Frank says private sector employment in Indiana for July outperformed historic peak levels of March 2000. Unemployment fell by 0.2 percent down to 4.7 percent.

The state has added nearly 10,000 workers to the labor force and a total of about 76,000 since January 2013. Frank says manufacturing remains strong and Indiana is in the top five for manufacturing job growth nationally.

He says the healthcare sector is also performing well. Overall, Indiana has been growing four-thousand jobs on average each month. Frank says current trending bodes well for the future.