ST. PAUL, MN (KDAL) – Minnesota’s unemployment rate in October 2021 is back to where it was immediately before the global pandemic was declared in March 2020.
The 3.5% rate is down two-tenths of a percentage point from September.
The numbers were released on Thursday by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED).
The decline in Minnesota’s unemployment rate in October was primarily due to people moving from unemployment to employment, although the size of the labor force shrank slightly by nearly 1,000 people.
Nationally, the unemployment rate fell two-tenths of a percentage point to 4.6%.
Employment rose over the year in the Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Statistical Area by 2.9 percent.
