State Gains 9,100 Jobs in December

Minnesota employers added 9,100 jobs in December, according to seasonally adjusted figures released today by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED).

Those figures, combined with November figures that were revised upward by 2,000 jobs, brought job gains for the calendar year in Minnesota to 42,485. Jobs grew 1.5 percent in the state in 2015, compared with a U.S. growth rate of 1.9 percent for the year.

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