State unemployment falls to 5.7%, private sector employment grows

INDIANAPOLIS – The state’s unemployment rate continued to fall in April, marking nine months of decline in the Hoosier state.

The state’s rate of 5.7 percent is below the national rate and has consistently fallen there the past four months.

“April’s job numbers maintained the positive economic trend for 2014 in the Hoosier State,” said Scott Sanders, commissioner of the Indiana Department of Workforce  Development. “Indiana’s unemployment rate continues to drop because more Hoosiers are going back to work as our labor force continues to grow, which is not the case with some of our neighboring states or the national trend as a whole.”

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