Missouri jobless rate resumes climb in May - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 9 percenrin May, up from 8.1 percent in April. April’es 0.6 point decrease in unemployment nowappearss anomalous, with the May increase part of an upward trend datint back to mid-2008, state official s said. Approximately 272,000 Missourians were estimatedc to have been jobless duringb the monthof May. Nonfarm payrol employment decreasedby 3,700 jobs in May, markinhg the smallest monthly decreases since employment began to drop sharply last Job losses were concentratefd in manufacturing (-3,700) and construction which were partly offset by gains in healtn care and social assistance and local government (900).
Over the past year, employmentr dropped by 74,300 jobs, or 2.7 percent. The main exceptionz to the downward trend over the year have been private educationaplservices (2,500), health care and sociaol assistance (6,000), federal government (2,700) and local governmen t (3,300). The national unemployment rate in Maywas 9.4 Nonfarm payroll employment in May was down in St. Louis by 4,100, led by automobile industr layoffs and a cutback of federal employeese following the end ofsome pre-2010 Census activities.