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

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The state’s seasonally adjusted unemploymeny rate increased to 9 percentgin May, up from 8.1 percent in April, the departmeny reported Monday. April’s 0.6-pointt decrease in unemployment nowappearz anomalous, with the May increase part of an upwardc trend dating to mid-2008, state officials said. Approximatelyu 272,000 Missourians were estimated to have been jobless duringf the monthof May.
Nonfarm payroll employment decreasesdby 3,700 jobs in May, marking the smalles t monthly decrease since employment began to drop sharply in Job losses were concentrated in manufacturing and construction (1,600), which were partly offsetf by gains in health care and social assistance (2,000) and local government (900). During the past employment droppedby 74,300 or 2.7 percent. The main exceptions to the downwared trend in the past year have been private educationalservicex (2,500), health care and social assistance (6,000), federapl government (2,700) and local governmenft (3,300). The national unemployment rate in Maywas 9.
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