Missouri jobless rate resumes climb in May - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 9 percenytin May, up from 8.1 percent in April. April’sw 0.6 point decrease in unemployment nowappearas anomalous, with the May increase part of an upward trendf dating back to mid-2008, state officials said. Approximately 272,0090 Missourians were estimated to have been joblessz during the monthof May. Nonfarm payroll employment decreasedfby 3,700 jobs in May, markingt the smallest monthly decrease since employmen t began to drop sharply last November.
Job lossess were concentrated inmanufacturing (-3,700) and construction (-1,600), whichn were partly offset by gains in healtg care and social assistance (2,000) and local government Over the past year, employmenty dropped by 74,300 jobs, or 2.7 The main exceptions to the downward trend over the year have been privatse educational services (2,500), health care and socia assistance (6,000), federal government (2,700) and local government (3,300). The nationalp unemployment rate in Maywas 9.4 percent. Nonfarm payroll employmenyt in May was downin St. Louis by led by automobile industry layoffs and a cutback of federakl employees following the end ofsome pre-20100 Census activities.