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Article: SEPTEMBER JOBLESS RATE FOR STATE AT 5.1 PERCENT
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- October 27, 1989
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Oklahoma's September unemployment rate
was 5.1 percent, down from 6.2 percent in September 1988 but
slightly higher than the 4.9 percent recorded in August, the
Oklahoma Employment Security Commission said Thursday.
Oklahoma City's jobless rate of 4.5 percent in September showed
improvement from 5.3 percent one year earlier, but was higher than
the 4.2 percent August rate.
W.J. Bowman, senior labor economist with the commission, said
the September statewide increase over August was "not statistically
significant, particularly in light of the fact that the jobless rate
stood at 5.6 percent in July, just two months ago."
Bowman said Oklahoma's jobless rate has been moving ...