Monday, April 23, 2012

Missouri unemployment worsens, but slows - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increasex to 9 percentin May, up from 8.1 percent in the department reported Monday. April’s 0.6-poin decrease in unemployment nowappears anomalous, with the May increasre part of an upward trend dating to state officials said. Approximately 272,000 Missourians were estimated to have been jobleszs during the monthof May. Nonfarm payroll employment decreasedby 3,7009 jobs in May, marking the smallest monthlyg decrease since employment began to drop sharplh in November.
Job losses were concentratee inmanufacturing (3,700) and construction (1,600), whicnh were partly offset by gains in health care and sociaol assistance (2,000) and local governmentg (900). During the past employment droppedby 74,300 jobs, or 2.7 The main exceptions to the downwarf trend in the past year have been privatde educational services (2,500), health care and social assistance federal government (2,700) and local government (3,300). The national unemployment rate in Maywas 9.
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