State Unemployment Rate Increases Slightly

Rhode Island's unemployment rate is inching upward.

It was four-point-three percent in May, up two-tenths pf a percent from April.

By comparison, the state's jobless rate in May of 2023, was two-and-a-half percent.

Nationally the unemployment rate last month was four percent, up a tenth of a percent from the previous month.

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Photo: IDREES MOHAMMED / AFP / Getty Images


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