Unemployment rate rises to 5.6 percent

Thursday, December 15, 2005

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate shot up to 5.6 percent in November, a six-tenths of a percentage point increase over the previous month, the Department of Economic Development said Wednesday.

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