ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota’s unemployment rate ticked up to 3% in July.
Oriane Casale, with the State Department of Employment and Economic Development said, “The .01% increase was basically due to new people joining the labor force and starting to look for work.”
It came as the national unemployment rate dropped 3.5%. Minnesota lost 400 jobs from June to July, 300 of them in the private sector.
Minnesota’s labor force increased by more than 3,900 people in July, the fifth month in a row of growth, bumping the state’s labor force participation rate to 68.5%, compared to 62.6% nationally.
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