Employers Add 7,300 Jobs in August

Minnesota employers added 7,300 jobs in August, according to seasonally adjusted figures released today by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED).

Those numbers, combined with July figures that were revised upward by 2,800 jobs, brought job gains in the state to 38,037 in the past year. Jobs in the state have grown 1.3 percent since August 2014, compared with a 2.1 percent growth rate nationally during that period.

The state unemployment rate held steady in August at a seasonally adjusted 4 percent, compared with a U.S. unemployment rate of 5.1 percent.

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