State's jobless rate holds steady at 7%

Despite the loss of 9,900 jobs, mostly in business, government and hospitality, Minnesota's unemployment rate held steady at 7 percent last month, state officials reported Thursday.

. . . In a surprise piece of good news, the state's construction sector added 3,100 jobs in September after months of lackluster results. The addition, the most since April 2005, was mainly due to a rise in specialty trades and not civil engineering projects, McElroy said.

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