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Massachusetts unemployment rate at a nearly 50-year low

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published July 28, 2023 at 10:01 AM EDT
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The Massachusetts unemployment rate was 2.6 percent in June, which is the lowest in 47 years.

Since employment bottom in April 2020, the state has gained more than 700,000 jobs

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts is the lowest it has been since 1976.

The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported the unemployment rate for June was 2.6 percent. That is a full point lower than the national average.

Since April 2020 during the peak of the COVID pandemic shutdowns, Massachusetts has gained more than 701,000 jobs.

For perspective on what the statistics mean for people seeking work, WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Kevin Lynn, Executive Director of the MassHire Springfield Career Center.
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The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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