Framingham unemployment falls to 2.5% in April
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Unemployment in the MetroWest region hit 2.5% in April.
Unemployment in the MetroWest region continued to fall in April, with the Framingham metro area’s rate hitting 2.5%.
The rate, released on Tuesday by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, was down 0.5 percentage points from March, when unemployment in the region hit 3.0%. The MetroWest labor force shrank over the month, falling from 159,700 people in March to 157,007 in April.
Year-over-year, the labor force is actually up, from 156,599 in April 2021. Back then, the unemployment rate was at 4.7%.
The Framingham division includes the towns of Sudbury, Natick, Southborough, Framingham, Ashland, Holliston, Hopedale, Mendon, Milford, Marlborough, Hopkinton, and Hudson, according to the state. Total employment in the area was 153,008, down from 154,944 in March but up from 149,184 in April of last year.
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