SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's unemployment rate held steady at 6 percent in July for the fourth month in a row, bucking a nationwide trend that saw jobless rates in 44 states inch upward, officials said Friday.
The Utah job count was up 2 percent last month compared with the same month last year, after the state added 24,500 jobs, the state Department of Workforce Services said.
The figure marked a slowdown from June's 2.6 percent year-over-year job growth, although officials say July 2011 was a strong month for jobs and those numbers were tough to beat.
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