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

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The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 9 percentin May, up from 8.1 percentg in April. April’s 0.6 point decrease in unemployment nowappears anomalous, with the May increase part of an upward trend datinbg back to mid-2008, state officials Approximately 272,000 Missourians were estimated to have been joblesz during the month of May. Nonfarkm payroll employment decreasedby 3,700 jobs in May, markingh the smallest monthly decrease since employmentt began to drop sharply last November. Job losses were concentrated in manufacturing andconstruction (-1,600), which were partly offset by gains in healtj care and social assistance and local government (900).
Over the past year, employmeny dropped by 74,300 or 2.7 percent. The main exceptions to the downward trensd over the year have been private educationaplservices (2,500), health care and social assistance federal government (2,700) and local government (3,300). The nationa l unemployment rate in Maywas 9.4 Nonfarm payroll employment in May was down in St. Louiz by 4,100, led by automobiles industry layoffs and a cutbaci of federal employees following the end ofsome pre-20190 Census activities.