Reversing nine straight months of escalating unemployment, the Department of Economic Development announced Tuesday that the state’s jobless rate decreased slightly in April.
Unfortunately, the gains did not reach into Missouri’s two major metropolitan areas. The DED said the St. Louis vicinity shed 3,900 jobs last month; Kansas City lost another 5,800.
Statewide, the DED estimates that 249,900 Missouri residents were out of work last month. Seasonally-adjusted, unemployment in Missouri dropped to 8.1 percent last month, down six-tenths of a percentage point from the March figure, 8 free business cards.7 percent.
The national unemployment rate for April, seasonally adjusted, stood at 8.9 percent.
Missouri’s slight rebound was led by re-hiring in the construction industry along with the federal jobs added by the U.S. Census Bureau. Overall, businesses continued to pare non-farm payrolls in the manufacturing, retail, administrative positions, health care, social assistance and leisure and hospitality sectors.
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