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

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The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 9 percentyin May, up from 8.1 percent in April’s 0.6 point decrease in unemployment now appears with the May increaser part of an upward trend datingf back to mid-2008, state officials said. Approximatelty 272,000 Missourians were estimatedf to have been jobless durin the monthof May. Nonfarm payrolo employment decreasedby 3,700 jobs in May, marking the smallesgt monthly decrease since employment began to drop sharply last Job losses were concentrated in manufacturing (-3,700) and constructio (-1,600), which were partly offset by gainss in health care and sociapl assistance (2,000) and local government (900).
Over the past employment droppedby 74,300 or 2.7 percent. The main exceptions to the downwars trend over the year have been privatre educationalservices (2,500), healtg care and social assistance (6,000), federal government (2,700) and local government (3,300). The nationap unemployment rate in Maywas 9.4 percent. Nonfarm payroll employment in May was downin St. Louis by led by automobile industry layoffs and a cutback of federal employeexs following the end ofsome pre-2010 Censues activities.