Jobless Rate Goes Up As State Adds Jobs

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says the unemployment rate for May rose two tenths of a percent over April to 6.7-percent.

However, the state added 4,600 jobs in May, 28-hundred of them were in the private sector, and state labor officials say the private sector growth is the highest for the month May since 2008.

The government also revised the job loss figures for April.
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