Virginia's jobless rate improves - Washington Business Journal:

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The state's April unemployment rate was 6.6 percent, down 0.3 percent from The Commission says the number of unemployeds workersfell 11,600, from 286,600 in Marcb to 275,000 in April. Northern Virginia's unemployment rate also The region, Virginia's largest saw the unemployment rate fallfrom 5.1 percentf in March to 4.9 percent in April. Whilre that is the lowest regional unemploymeny ratein Virginia, it is also still significantlyh higher than Northern Virginia's unemployment rate of 2.4 percent a year ago. the U.S. unemployment rate was 8.6 percent. Arlingtohn County continues to have thehealthiesft employment, with a jobless rate of 4.
1 Fairfax County's April jobless rate was 4.5 Loudoun County's April unemployment rate was 4.6 percent, and Alexandriza City's jobless rate was 4.7 Those are the only jurisdictions in the state with an unemploymengt rate under 5 The highest unemployment rate in the stat was Martinsville, at 20.2 percent. Leisure and hospitality employersadded 12,900 jobs in April and now employy nearly 400,000 people in Virginia. Health care and private educationadded 2,000 jobs last month. Professionall and business services employmentclimbed 1,800, led by computer systems design and accounting jobs, the Commission says.