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 Ramsey County Commissioner Toni Carter, right foreground, joined other local officials in celebrating the grand re-opening of the St. Paul WorkForce Center in the Midway neighborhood last week.
The newly-remodeled space in the Griggs-Midway Building has been reorganized and downsized to create a less cavernous, impersonal feel.
The three St. Paul-area workforce centers — and to various degrees, workforce centers across the state — are rolling out a new way of doing things.
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 After Minnesota lost nearly 4,000 jobs in April, economists worried that another sizable decline in May would mean that the state's labor shortage had reached the critical point where it was constraining growth. Instead, employers added 10,200 jobs last month, the biggest jump of the year.
"It's been awhile since we had a gain this big," said Steve Hine, labor market analyst at DEED.
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Minnesota had its strongest month of job growth in more than a year, with employers adding 10,200 jobs in May. With those gains, the state has added 29,188 jobs in the past year, a 1 percent growth rate. The U.S. rate of job growth during that period was 1.7 percent. Minnesota’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 3.1 percent in May, the lowest level since July 2000.
Leaders from DEED, Ramsey County and the city of St. Paul gathered last Thursday morning to celebrate the grand re-opening of the St. Paul WorkForce Center. The center, located at 540 Fairview Ave. N., recently underwent physical updates, including increased space for workshops, one-on-one job counseling and on-site employer interviews.
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