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May 23, 2011

Unemployment rate remains flat

Maine's unemployment rate in April was 7.6%, unchanged from March but a drop over the previous year.

Last month's unemployment rate was down from 8.2% in April 2010, according to a press release from the Maine Department of Labor. The number of unemployed was 52,900, a drop of 4,100 over the past year. The number of nonfarm jobs in April was 595,600, up 800 over the month.

The New England average was 7.9%. Nationally, unemployment ticked up two-tenths of a percent over March to 9.0%.

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