Minn. officials set to detail Sept. unemployment
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Minnesota has seen its unemployment rate dip slightly over the past couple of months even as the nation's figure has risen.
It'll be known Thursday if that trend keeps up when state officials release the Minnesota unemployment rate for September.
Nationwide, the September unemployment rate stood at a 26-year high of 9.8 percent.
Minnesota's seasonally adjusted rate for August was 8 percent, which was far below the national average.
But state officials warned that there was more to the figure. They said then that part of the drop was caused by fewer people even bothering to seek new work.
State employers cut 120,000 jobs between August 2008 and August 2009.
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