Local jobless rate dips, still higher than last year
May 14th, 2008 - 7:40am
(Port Angeles) -- Clallam County's unemployment dropped to seven-point-one percent last
month.
That's down from March's reported rate of seven-point-seven percent in numbers released
by the state Employment Security Department Tuesday.
However, the jobless rate for April is one-point-seven percent higher than the same
month a year ago.
In April 2007, just 5-point-4 percent of the Clallam workforce was unemployed.
Jefferson County unemployment is down seven-tenths of a percent for April at 5-point-3
percent.
Washington's unemployment rate dropped to 4.7 percent last month.
That's down two-tenths of a percent from March's reported rate of 4.9 percent.
The national unemployment rate is 5 percent.
The drop in unemployment in the state was accompanied by a decline of
18-hundred non-agricultural jobs.
But the total number of non-agricultural jobs in Washington was 46-thousand-300 higher
than the same time in 2007, a one-point-six percent increase.
Nationally, job growth for the past year was point-3 percent.
Industries in Washington with the largest job growth were government, with 600 new jobs,
and professional business services, with 500 new jobs.
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