New Mexico’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.6 percent in December 2011, up slightly from 6.5 percent in November but down from 8.6 percent a year ago. The national unemployment rate dropped to 8.5 percent.
The rate of over-the-year job growth, comparing December 2011 with December 2010, was 0.9 percent, representing an increase of 7,400 jobs. New Mexico has now posted seven straight months of over-the-year job growth, following a sustained period of losses that began in November 2008. The employment survey showed seven industries adding jobs, five losing jobs, and one unchanged from a year earlier.
The largest private-sector industry group, educational & health services, continued to add a large proportion of the new jobs. This fast-growing group of firms, dominated by large health care providers, gained 4,300 jobs over the year, growing 3.5 percent.
New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions
http://www.dws.state.nm.us/
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