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 “The March jobs report is more welcome news, but there is still a lot of work to do,” said Governor McCrory. “The continued progress that we have made over the last 15 months is evidence that the policy changes we made are working. While we continue to see encouraging results, the hard work is far from over, and we will use the upcoming short session to pursue even more policies that put North Carolinians back to work,” continued Governor McCrory.

 

The number of people employed increased by 10,277 over the month and increased by 56,211 over the past year. North Carolina saw the second largest year-over-year drop in the unemployment rate – a 2.2 percentage point decrease to 6.3 percent. The last time the North Carolina unemployment rate was at or below 6.3% was in June of 2008.