State's unemployment rate drops
Massachusetts added more than 19,000 jobs last month, helping the state's unemployment rate drop to 9.2 percent from 9.3 percent the previous month, and indicating an economic recovery.
The US is continuing to recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression, the White House said after the latest jobs report revealed that the unemployment rate for the month of April has dropped to 7.5 per cent, the lowest in four years.