Unemployment Rate In SD Steady

The states unemployment rate was four point seven percent in July, the same as June. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says the states rate has varied between four point nine and four point sever percent since the first of the year.  South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation Secretary Pam Roberts says the rate is consistently low…

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About thirty five hundred more people had jobs this July as compared to last year. Roberts says growth is not evenly spread…

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Roberts says a good growth path in jobs was interrupted by the national recession…

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(courtesy WNAX Yankton)