Unemployment in N.Y. increases in May

ALBANY — New York's seasonally adjusted employment rate increased to 5.2% in May, up from 4.7 in April and the largest month-to-month increase since January 1991.

In May 2007, the state's unemployment rate was 4.5%.

The state Labor Department reports that New York City also had an unemployment rate of 5.2% for May, up from 4.7 in April and 5.1 in May 2007.

Nationally the unemployment rate was 5.5% in May.

For individual counties, the highest state unemployment rate — 6.6% --was in St. Lawrence County. Tompkins County again had the state's lowest unemployment rate, 3.9%.