N.C. unemployment rate drops as 20K new jobs are added

Posted on — Grady Cooper
From a press release: 
 Raleigh, N.C. – North Carolina’s unemployment rate fell to 6.3 percent in March as employers added more than 20,000 new jobs across the state, according to data released Friday by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
The new jobs mean North Carolina saw the second largest increase in employment in the nation, while the state’s unemployment rate is at a more than five-year low just one month after it fell below the national average for the first time since March 2006. 
 
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