St. Louis adds 16,700 jobs

From the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 05/30/2007
By David Nicklaus

Wednesday, May. 30 2007 The St. Louis metro area added 16,700 jobs between April 2006 and April 2007, according to preliminary figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That%u2019s a gain of 1.2 percent, about in line with the area%u2019s performance in recent months. April was the 33rd straight month that St. Louis showed a year-over-year increase in employment.

The metro area%u2019s unemployment rate, calculated in a separate BLS survey, fell to 4.5 percent in April. U.S. unemployment also was 4.5 percent in April. The St. Louis rate, which is not seasonally adjusted, was 5.0 percent in March and 4.7 percent in April 2006.