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Rochester continues to add jobs as unemployment rate falls (access required)

Rochester’s economy remained strong in September, with growth in private sector jobs and another dip in the unemployment rate, the state Department of Labor reported recently. Rochester’s six-county metro region gained 6,900 nonfarm jobs, or 1.3 percent, from September 2017 to September 2018, with the private sector contributing 6,600 of those jobs, not seasonally adjusted. Nonfarm ...
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