According to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, the Massachusetts unemployment rate rose slightly to 6.7 percent for the month of December. The jobless rate has slowly risen since May of 2012 when it was at 6 percent. The state’s current unemployment rate is down compared with the rate one year ago when it was 6.9 percent in December 2011. It also remains lower than the highest rate of the Recession, which was 8.7 percent, in October 2009. The national unemployment rate was 7.8 percent in December. 

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts rose to 6.6 percent, up slightly from 6.5 percent in the previous month, according to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. Although 7,900 jobs were added across the state in October, this is the fourth consecutive month that the overall unemployment rate has risen. Massachusetts’ unemployment rate remains below the national average of 7.9 percent.

For the third month in a row, the Massachusetts unemployment rate rose slightly – from 6.3 percent to 6.5 percent in September, according to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. Massachusetts also added over 5,000 jobs last month, primarily in the leisure and hospitality sector, as well as the professional, scientific and business service sector and also the construction sector.

Massachusetts’ unemployment rate remains lower than the national average, which was 7.8 percent in September.

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development released its jobs report for August and said the state unemployment rate rose to 6.3 percent, up from 6.1 percent in July. The Massachusetts economy lost 4,800 jobs last month and the office revised its jobs number for July saying that the state only added 300 jobs that month, not the 1,600 jobs originally reported.

Overall, Massachusetts has added more than 30,000 jobs in 2012 and its unemployment rate remains lower than the national average of 8.1 percent.

Although Massachusetts employers added 1,600 jobs last month, the State’s unemployment rate rose slightly from 6 to 6.1 percent, according to the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

These numbers mark the first time in nearly 3 years that the unemployment level has increased, but officials said the unemployment rate is down 1.3 percentage points from the previous July.

Massachusetts’ unemployment rate is better than the national average unemployment rate of 8.3 percent.

The latest report from the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development indicates that hiring in Massachusetts slowed dramatically for the month of June and the State lost jobs for the first time since November.

Massachusetts employers cut payrolls by 2,600 jobs last month, though the unemployment rate held steady at 6 percent. The latest report underscores the slow economic growth in Massachusetts.

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The Massachusetts unemployment rate fell to 6.3 percent in April and employers added 2,500 jobs, according to the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

The numbers represent the fifth consecutive month of job gains for Massachusetts and the lowest unemployment rate since October 2008.

Massachusetts’ unemployment rate remains lower than the national average, which is currently 8.1 percent

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