Today H.J. Cummins, who covers the employment beat for Star Tribune, opened her article with:

Minnesota’s job picture worsened Tuesday as new state data showed a double whammy of bad news during the past two months.

The state set a record in the wrong direction last month, as its 4.9 percent unemployment rate came in 0.2 percentage points over the national average, according to Tuesday’s monthly jobs report. In May, Minnesota’s jobless rate was worse than the nation’s for the first time in 30 years of record-keeping, then by 0.1 percentage points.

Read her full article here: Twin blows on the jobs front.

How is it going out there in the Minneapolis job market? Does this article feel accurate for what you experience? Do you struggle to find jobs?

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