Maryland gains 9,800 jobs in September Labor Department: State unemployment rate drops to 6.9%
Source: Baltimore Sun
Maryland employers added 9,800 jobs in September, a gain that came almost entirely from the private sector, the U.S. Department of Labor estimated Friday.
The state's unemployment rate dropped to 6.9 percent from 7.1 percent in August, the agency said.
The large increase in jobs — coming as most of the country saw growth — is the second gain in a row after five months of losses in the state, according to the Labor Department's preliminary estimates.
Forty-one states and Washington, D.C., saw improvements in their unemployment rates last month, the Labor Department said. Friday's release was the last state-by-state breakdown before Election Day, a final opportunity to see how battleground regions are faring before voters hit the polls.
The jobless rate dropped in Ohio and five other states where President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are concentrating their campaigns — Wisconsin, Colorado, Florida, Iowa and Nevada. In two other states the campaigns consider battlegrounds, New Hampshire and Virginia, the rate was unchanged from August.
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