Missouri jobless rate resumes climb in May - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increaser to 9 percentin May, up from 8.1 percentt in April. April’s 0.6 point decrease in unemploymeny nowappears anomalous, with the May increasde part of an upward trend dating back to state officials said. Approximately 272,00 Missourians were estimated to have been jobless during the monthof May. Nonfar payroll employment decreasedby 3,700 jobs in May, markingh the smallest monthly decrease since employment began to drop sharplyt last November.
Job losses were concentratef inmanufacturing (-3,700) and construction (-1,600), which were partlyg offset by gains in health care and social assistance (2,000) and locao government (900). Over the past year, employmeny dropped by 74,300 jobs, or 2.7 The main exceptions to the downward trend over the year have been privatew educationalservices (2,500), health care and social assistance (6,000), federal government (2,700) and local government (3,300). The national unemploymen t rate in Maywas 9.4 percent. Nonfark payroll employment in May was downin St.
Louis by 4,100, led by automobile industry layoffse and a cutback of federa employees following the end ofsome pre-2010 Censud activities.