Good Minnesota Unemployment Rate Gets Better

(St. Paul, MN)  —  Minnesota’s unemployment rate ticked down to two-point-nine percent in January from three in December.

Department of Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Steve Grove says the state economy brought in 10-thousand-200 new jobs when rates for COVID were quite high in the state.

The leisure and hospitality sector continues to grow with 18-hundred new jobs last month.

The U-S unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a point to four percent.