• Connecticut Unemployment: April 2012

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Connecticut’s unemployment rate was measured at 7.7% for April 2012. This is unchanged from March 2012, and one and three-tenths percentage points lower than April 2011 (9.0%). The unemployment rate in Connecticut has not been this low since March 2009 when it was also 7.7%. Click on chart to enlarge: The estimate of people unemployed, seasonally adjusted, was down 1,000 from March 2012 to 147,100. The April national rate was 8.1%. Both the over-the-year drop in the number of unemployed (-25,300) and the decline in the unemployment rate (-1.3%) are considered statistically significant. April’s average weekly initial unemployment claims for first-time filers decreased over the month by 125 (2.5%) to 4,798, and were down 378 claims from this time last year, or -7.3%. Source: CTDOL

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