May Unemployment Numbers Down For The Show Me State

Jobs are returning to businesses around the Lake area and across the state.

Governor Mike Parson says the Department of Economic Development’s report for May showed seasonally adjusted employment increasing by close to 33-thousand jobs, but still down over 260-thousand jobs for the year.

The May unemployment rate was adjusted a tenth of a percentage point to 10.1 percent and the adjusted rate is three times higher than the record low 3-percent unemployment in July 2018.

The Missouri unemployment rate was 3.1 percent in May 2019.