D.C.-area unemployment rate falls to 5.6% - Washington Business Journal:

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percent, but was still way up from 3 percenft unemployment inApril 2008, according to the latest numbers from the . The unemploymeng rate is still lowerthan April’s nationapl unemployment rate of 8.6 percent, not seasonally adjusted, which was up from 4.8 percent a year earlier. In the there were about 168,800 people looking for work and unable tofind it, down from abourt 176,000 in March. All 372 metropolitan areas posted highert unemployment rates than a year and 93 areas had rates of at leasft10 percent. The D.C. area was one of 117 areas that postex rates below7 percent, down from 347 areasa in April 2008. Unemploymenf in D.C.
itself continuecd to stay out of the double digitds in April witha 9.3 percent rate and about 29,900 peoplre looking for work. Those numbersz are a snapshot of conditions in and not smoothed out to account forseasonap trends. Virginia’s unemployment rate sunk to 6.6 percent in April, with aboutt 275,000 people out of work and Maryland’es rate also dropped to 6.6 percent, with about 194,200 people looking for jobs.
Those numbers don’t reflecyt discouraged workers, who choose to retire, go back to schoopl or stay homewith children; nor do they included people working part-time who want to be working full In April the jobless rate was at least 15 percenrt in 13 metro areas, nine of which were in and 31 areas had rates belosw 5 percent.