Unemployment in N.Y. increases in May
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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%.
