StudioTulsa
(2009-04-30)
OKLAHOMA CITY
(KOSU) -
Oklahoma City's unemployment rate increased to 5.6 percent in March, one of the lowest rates in the nation.The U.S. Labor Department reported Wednesday that of the 49 metropolitan areas the rate in Oklahoma City and the 5.3 percent unemployment rate in the New Orleans area were lowest in the nation.
Unemployment rates in all of the nation's largest metropolitan areas were higher last month compared to a year ago.
Oklahoma City's rate was up by one-tenth of a percent compared to February, and was up 2.3 percent compared to March 2008. Tulsa's unemployment rate last month was 6.3 percent, also up one-tenth of a percent from the previous month, and up 3 percent from a year ago.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) © Copyright 2012, KOSU
