Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Minnesota dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to ...

Despite the monthly setback, Minnesota’s year-over-year numbers remain stronger than the national picture.

Minnesota’s unemployment rate held steady at 4.5% in March, slightly above the national rate of 4.3%, which had dipped by one-tenth of a percent. March was the third month in a row that Minnesota’s ...

The private sector accounted for most of those losses, 5,900 jobs, between January and February, on a seasonally adjusted ...

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