(St. Paul, MN) -- There's a slight improvement in Minnesota's latest jobless numbers. The unemployment rate was seven-percent in May -- down from seven-point-two-percent the month before. State Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Dan McElroy says employers added 56-hundred jobs last month, the second month in a row that job numbers increased and the first time that's happened since early 2008. McElroy says manufacturing jobs were added for the fifth consecutive month, while construction continued to weaken overall. He says temporary jobs increased, which is looked at as a confidence-booster for the state's employment picture.
