Employment Security Comissioner Carver Gayton said growth inseasonal employment was offset by large layoffs in non-certifiedschool personnel, leaving the July rate a tenth of a percentagepoint above where it was a year ago. Seasonally adjusted, the raterose to 4.8%.
Total nonfarm wage and salary employment dropped by 23,000. Thedecrease resulted partly from normal seasonal layoffs of 35,300noncertified staff at public and private schools, along with thereduction of another 4,200 census workers, Gayton said.
The rest of the economy grew by 16,500 jobs, the agencysaid.
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