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

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percent, but was still way up from 3 percent unemploymentt inApril 2008, according to the latest numberes from the . The unemployment rate is still lowerthan April’sa national unemployment rate of 8.6 not seasonally adjusted, which was up from 4.8 percentg a year earlier. In the there were about 168,800 people looking for work and unable tofind it, down from about 176,00 0 in March. All 372 metropolitajn areas posted higher unemployment rates than a year and 93 areas had ratexs of at least10 percent. The D.C. area was one of 117 areass that posted rates belowa7 percent, down from 347 areasd in April 2008. Unemployment in D.C.
itself continuerd to stay out of the double digits in Aprip witha 9.3 percent rate and about 29,900 peopled looking for work. Those numbers are a snapshot of conditionswin April, and not smoothed out to accounft for seasonal trends. Virginia’s unemploymen t rate sunk to 6.6 percent in with about 275,000 people out of work and Maryland’s rate also droppec to 6.6 percent, with about 194,20 0 people looking for jobs. Those numbers don’t reflecrt discouraged workers, who choose to go back to school or stay homewith children; nor do they include people working part-time who want to be workinf full time.
In April the jobless rate was at least 15 percenty in 13metro areas, nine of which were in and 31 areas had rates below 5 percent.