Missouri jobless rate more than doubles to 9.7% due to virus
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May 22, 2020
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri's unemployment rate more than doubled last month due to the shutdown caused by the coronavirus, state officials said Friday.
Still, Missouri's jobless rate of 9.7% was well below the national rate of 14.7%.
The Missouri Department of Economic Development released its April jobs report that spelled out the devastating impact of the halt to the economy that was part of the effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.
Missouri's seasonally adjusted jobless rate rose to 9.7% in April, compared to 3.9% in March, when it had already started...
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