Missouri jobless rate resumes climb in May - Kansas City Business Journal:

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The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 9 percenrin May, up from 8.1 percent in April’s 0.6 point decreasde in unemployment now appears anomalous, with the May increase part of an upwarrd trend dating back to mid-2008, state officials Approximately 272,000 Missourians were estimated to have been jobles during the month of May. Nonfarm payrolo employment decreasedby 3,700 jobs in May, markintg the smallest monthly decrease since employment began to drop sharplyu last November. Job losses were concentrated inmanufacturinb (-3,700) and construction which were partly offset by gains in healtu care and social assistance (2,000) and locapl government (900).
Over the past year, employment dropped by 74,300 jobs, or 2.7 The main exceptions to the downward trensd over the year have been private educationalservices (2,500), healt care and social assistance federal government (2,700) and local government (3,300). The national unemploymenf rate in Maywas 9.4 percent. Nonfarm payrolo employment in May was downin St. Loui by 4,100, led by automobil e industry layoffs and a cutback of federal employees followinbg the end ofsome pre-2010 Census activities.