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State Unemployment Rate Steady Through End Of 2015

Andreas Klinke Johannsen
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Indiana’s unemployment rate ended 2015 by remaining stable at 4.4-percent, according to a year-end jobs report. 

The state’s private sector made no ground in adding jobs last month.

The Hoosier State’s unemployment rate remained unchanged for four consecutive months to end the year, holding steady at 4.4-percent since September. 

That’s a 1.5-percent drop from the start of 2015.  Indiana’s private sector neither added nor lost any jobs in December: gains in trade, transportation and utilities and construction sectors were offset by significant manufacturing losses – 3,400 jobs. 

The private sector added more than 50,000 jobs over the year – that’s in the top third of the country for growth.  

Brandon Smith is excited to be working for public radio in Indiana. He has previously worked in public radio as a reporter and anchor in mid-Missouri for KBIA Radio out of Columbia. Prior to that, he worked for WSPY Radio in Plano, Illinois as a show host, reporter, producer and anchor. His first job in radio was in another state capitol, in Jefferson City, Missouri, as a reporter for three radio stations around Missouri. Brandon graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Journalism in 2010, with minors in political science and history. He was born and raised in Chicago.