Missouri unemployment steady, markedly better than U.S. rate

Show Me State jobless rate for May was unchanged from the month before at 2.5%, and remains significantly better than the current 3.7% U.S. unemployment figure.

Missouri's unemployment has been at or below the national rate for more than eight years.

A year ago at this time, Missouri unemployment stood at 2.1%.

The most recently available figures for Missouri counties are for April, and in the three-county region, all outperformed the state numbers.

Locally

• Cape Girardeau: 2.2%, down from 2.4% in March, but up from 1.6% in September.
• Perry: 1.9%, a drop from 2.3% in March. April's number is the lowest since 1.7%, recorded in December.
• Scott: 2.3%, declining from 2.6% in March.

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