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

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percent in April, down from 7.1 percenf in March and up 3.4 percentagd points from a year ago. The rate is up from 3.5 percenrt in April 2008. There were 17,200 more people out of work than thered were theprevious April, the said There were 646,200 people in the work force and 44,400 people without jobs in April. Kauai’s jobless rate more than tripledfrom 3.1 percenrt to 9.7 percent over the year. Moloka i had the state’s highest unemployment rate at 14.4 up from 4.7 percent a year ago. Maui County’s jobless rate jumped from 3.3 percent in April 2008 to 8.7 perceng in April 2009. On the Big the rate rose from 4.2 percenyt to 9.7 percent.
Oahu had the state’s lowest rate at 5.7 percenyt but it was nearly double the rate fromAprilk 2008, when it was 2.9 percent. Hawaii’sa jobless rate is still below thenationalk figure, which rose to 8.9 percent in up from 8.5 percent in March. California’xs rate was 11