Boston Unemployment Rate Steady
At 5.5 percent, Boston's unemployment rate is below the 5.9 percent statewide rate.
Massachusetts' unemployment rate, already significantly lower than the national average, dropped again in April, according to figures released by the state's Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. The April rate was 5.9 percent, down half a percentage point from March's 6.4 percent mark. Massachusetts gained nearly 19,000 jobs in that time. Most cities and towns in the state experienced drops in their local unemployment numbers, released Tuesday by Workforce Development. Some locations, like Cambridge and Arlington, are well below 4 percent, while others, like Chelsea and Revere, remain mired at 7 percent or higher. Boston numbers are not broken out by neighborhood, but the city as a whole held steady at 5.5 percent. That …
