king183
04-20-2012, 11:34 AM
Oklahoma recorded the largest drop in the unemployment rate out of all the states, from 6.0% to 5.4%
Fortunately, unlike the modest decline in the national unemployment rate, this does not appear to be largely because of people dropping out of the labor pool. We added 10,000 jobs in March alone and 10,000 fewer Oklahomans were unemployed.
That is a massive monthly gain for us, especially considering we added nearly 10% of all new jobs in the entire country last month.
What I don't know is what caused this. Does anyone know of some major hiring event that occured in our state or is this simply a sign of a growing state economy? 10,000 news jobs is double our February increase and almost triple the previous months' increases.
Great news for Oklahoma.
Oklahoma registered the largest one-month decline in unemployment in March as the state's jobless rate fell to 5.4 percent, according to figures released Friday.
Read more: http://newsok.com/state-jobless-rate-down-to-5.4-percent-in-march/article/3668033#ixzz1sbSDnDja
Fortunately, unlike the modest decline in the national unemployment rate, this does not appear to be largely because of people dropping out of the labor pool. We added 10,000 jobs in March alone and 10,000 fewer Oklahomans were unemployed.
That is a massive monthly gain for us, especially considering we added nearly 10% of all new jobs in the entire country last month.
What I don't know is what caused this. Does anyone know of some major hiring event that occured in our state or is this simply a sign of a growing state economy? 10,000 news jobs is double our February increase and almost triple the previous months' increases.
Great news for Oklahoma.
Oklahoma registered the largest one-month decline in unemployment in March as the state's jobless rate fell to 5.4 percent, according to figures released Friday.
Read more: http://newsok.com/state-jobless-rate-down-to-5.4-percent-in-march/article/3668033#ixzz1sbSDnDja