Rhode Island's unemployment rate is showing a slight decline for the first time in several months.
The state's Department of Labor and Training says June's unemployment rate dropped from four-point-nine-percent to four-point-eight-percent.
That's around a half-percentage point higher than it was in June of 2024.
According to the latest report, more than 513 thousand people were working in non farm jobs.
There were more than 11 thousand people working in state government in some way.
Last month the state lost 24-hundred jobs after an 11-hundred job increase in May.
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