State Adds 1,900 Jobs in September

Minnesota employers added 1,900 jobs in September, according to seasonally adjusted figures released today by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED).

Those numbers, combined with figures from August that were revised from 1,500 jobs lost to 500 jobs gained, brought total job growth in Minnesota to 40,899 in the past year. State jobs are up 1.4 percent from the same month a year ago. The U.S. rate of job growth was 1.7 percent over the past year.

The state unemployment rate held steady in September at a seasonally adjusted 4 percent. The U.S. unemployment rate was 5 percent in September.

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