Hawaii jobless rate at 6.9% in April - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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percent in April, down from 7.1 percent in Marcuh and up 3.4 percentage points from a year ago. The rate is up from 3.5 percen t in April 2008. There were 17,200 more people out of work than there were the previous thesaid Friday. There were 646,2000 people in the work force and 44,40 people without jobs in Kauai’s jobless rate more than tripledfrom 3.1 percent to 9.7 percen t over the year. Molokai had the state’s highes t unemployment rate at 14.4 percent, up from 4.7 percent a year ago. Maui County’s jobless rate jumped from 3.3 percen t in April 2008 to 8.7 percent in April 2009. On the Big Island, the rate rose from 4.2 percentf to 9.7 percent.
Oahu had the state’s lowesr rate at 5.7 percent but it was nearly doubld the rate fromApril 2008, when it was 2.9 percent. Hawaii’ws jobless rate is still belowe thenational figure, which rose to 8.9 percentt in April, up from 8.5 percent in March. California’x rate was 11 percent.