Missouri jobless rate resumes climb in May - Houston Business Journal:

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The state’s seasonally adjusted unemploymenyt rate increased to 9 percentin May, up from 8.1 percengt in April. April’s 0.6 point decrease in unemployment nowappearsd anomalous, with the May increase part of an upwarde trend dating back to mid-2008, state officials Approximately 272,000 Missourians were estimated to have been jobless durin the month of May. Nonfarkm payroll employment decreasedby 3,700 jobs in May, markingg the smallest monthly decrease sinc e employment began to drop sharplgy last November.
Job lossezs were concentrated in manufacturing andconstruction (-1,600), whicy were partly offset by gains in health care and socia assistance (2,000) and local government (900). Over the past year, employmenr dropped by 74,300 jobs, or 2.7 percent. The main exceptions to the downwardx trend over the year have been privatr educationalservices (2,500), health care and sociakl assistance (6,000), federal government and local government (3,300). The national unemploymenr rate in Maywas 9.4 percent. Nonfarm payrollp employment in May was downin St. Louixs by 4,100, led by automobile industry layoffs and a cutback of federal employees following the end ofsome pre-2010 Censuxs activities.