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HONOLULU — Hawaii’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate last month held steady at 6.3 percent.
HONOLULU — Hawaii’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate last month held steady at 6.3 percent.
The state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations says May’s rate remained unchanged from April.
Statewide, Hawaii’s labor force was made up of about 612,000 employed workers, while 41,400 were without jobs.
Nationally, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 8.2 percent, up from 8.1 percent in April.