Connecticut added 4,000 more jobs in March, which combined with 800 miscounted jobs from February, left its jobless rate unchanged but pushed the state’s roster of working residents back closer to its pre-Great Recession peak, labor authorities say.
The state’s nonfarm payroll rose less than 1 percent last month to 1,686,700, keeping the March unemployment rate at 6.4 percent, same as February, the state Department of Labor said Monday.
The department revised downward its February job-loss tally to 2,900 from 3,700, saying they had been miscast.
Since March 2014, Connecticut has regained 27,100 jobs, putting its post-recession jobs recovery at 92,700, or 78 percent of the 119,000 seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs lost from March 2008 to February 2010, the agency said.
“As we entered spring, job growth at this point in the recovery seems to be coming from a broader base of the state’s industries,” said Andy Condon, who directs the labor agency’s research office. “Eight of 10 major industry supersectors added jobs in March and over the year. We continue to see increased labor force participation as the economy improves.”
