By Lesley Weidenbener
TheStatehouseFile.com
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana’s unemployment rate dropped slightly in September, even as the state lost jobs overall.
The seasonally adjusted rate stood at 5.7 percent last month, down 0.1 percentage points from August. The rate is significantly lower than one year ago when it stood at 7.3 percent.
The drop comes even as the private sector suffered a decline of 1,900 jobs in the state, led primarily by losses in the leisure and hospitality and the trade, transportation and utilities sectors.
Still, Indiana employers added 6,000 manufacturing jobs, a 1.2 percent increase over the previous month.
The Indiana Department of Workforce Development says that’s the largest one-month increase in manufacturing jobs in a decade and one of the highest in the nation. Since July 200, the low point of employment, the state has added 90,000 manufacturing jobs, which ranks Indiana among the top five in the nation.
True measurement would be list the number of full time employment, then list the part time employment. People flowing in an out of the job market availability skews the numbers.
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