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State’s unemployment rate holds steady at 2.9%

CASPER (WNE) — Wyoming’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held steady at 2.9% from June to July, the Research & Planning section of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services reported Monday.

While Wyoming’s unemployment rate has remained low, the U.S. unemployment rate has increased in each of the past three months, rising from 3.8% in March to 4.3% in July.

Over the year, unemployment rates were higher than year-ago levels in every county, with most counties ticking up two-tenths of a percentage point or less.

The largest increases were i...