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State's Unemployment Rate Declines Again
posted 4:34 pm Fri May 16, 2008 - Oklahoma City
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Oklahoma's unemployment rate is continuing to fall.
The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission reported Friday the state's unemployment rate dropped to 2.9 percent for April. That's a full percentage point drop from April 2007 and a decline from March's rate of 3.3 percent.
The commission reported Oklahoma's statewide non-farm employment expanded by 7,300 jobs during April, with more than half of the jobs coming from the Oklahoma City area. Most of the growth over the last month was in the service providing sector.
Since last April, the goods producing sector, which includes the oil and gas industry, accounted for nearly 40 percent of all new jobs.
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