State unemployment rate at 3.3%

It’s another good unemployment number for the state of Missouri.

It was at 3.3% in December. The state says that’s the 41^st straight month Missouri’s unemployment has been lower than the national rate, which was 3.5%.

Missouri added 20,000 jobs last year, according to the Department of Economic Development. The state put out some numbers on the economy yesterday (thur). We had an unemployment rate of three-point-three percent in December. That’s below the national unemployment rate, for the 41^st straight month.