The state unemployment rate in May fell to its lowest level in more than three years as Massachusetts employers added jobs for the sixth consecutive month, the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported Thursday.
The jobless rate, which has declined steadily since last summer, dropped to 6 percent last month, from 6.3 percent in April, to reach the lowest level since September 2008. Employers increased payrolls by 7,500 jobs in May, after adding a revised 1,700 jobs in April.
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It's Obama's fault.
I was at the WBZ CBS business breakfast on Tuesday AM at the Westin Copley where Scott Pelley was the guest host. He has an index number that he uses regularly on the Evening News which follows those who have fallen off the unemployement chart for any one of a variety of reasons. He mixed that in with the actual enemployment numbers and the aggregate number was staggering. I like good news just as much as anyone else but when reporting the news you need to tell the whole story. What's the aggregate number for MA?
Too bad the country wide numbers were awful
It would be useful if there was a link to the entire document from which these stats are sourced. First, the agency reporting these numbers may be omitting stats that be leading indicators of underlying issues and second, reporters may not be equipped to ask questions which would uncover selective statistical positioning. How hard would it be to add a live link in these stories to documents in the public domain?