Baby steps for Minnesota construction jobs in 2011

Minnesota’s much beleaguered construction sector saw a slight uptick in jobs over the course of 2011, with specialty trades adding jobs over a 12-month period for the first time since 2006, according to figures out Thursday from the state Department of Employment and Economic Development.


The state’s overall unemployment rate, meanwhile, fell two-tenths of a percentage point, to 5.7 percent, in December, its lowest level since before the financial panic of 2008. 


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