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Unemployment Rate in Alaska Falls Slightly, Says Labor Department.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2000
Jul. 22--JUNEAU, Alaska--Alaska's unemployment rate decreased slightly to 6 percent in June, the state Department of Labor announced.
The .1 percent decline brought the state to the second-lowest unemployment rate for June in the past 20 years, said John Boucher, a labor economist for the department.
Areas dependent on the tourism and fishing industries experienced the sharpest drop.
"Hotels and lodges, retailers, passenger transportation firms and amusement and recreation services all added employees in June," Boucher said.
In the Denali Borough, unemployment dipped from 5.9 percent to 3.3 percent, the lowest in the state, thanks to seasonal tourism jobs. The Wade Hampton Census Area in Western Alaska had the highest unemployment...
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