The Workforce Development Department also said Wisconsin added 35,565 private-sector jobs from December 2014 through December 2015.
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“We see continued strong job gains in numerous traditional economic drivers for the state, such as professional and scientific, education and health care, leisure and hospitality, trade, transportation and utilities”, Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Ronald L. Walker II said in a statement. Last month’s gain follows March’s revised gain of 6,600 jobs.
“As new workers entered or re-entered the labor force, the number of unemployed also grew”, Condon said.
After earlier improvement, the state’s unemployment rate has been flat or slightly worsening since the second half of a year ago. “We have more to do, and we will continue in our efforts to create good paying jobs with good benefits for middle class families in CT”. Education and health services lost 1,600 jobs, while other services lost 200 positions.
The only employment sector in CT that saw a decrease in workers was leisure and hospitality, where there were 3,000 fewer people working in April. “This explains recent upward pressure on our unemployment rate”.
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Year over year, non-farm employment in the state saw the addition of 83,800 jobs. But New Jersey was back in the negative in April. The job estimates are derived from a monthly sample survey of employers.
