MARYLAND TOUTS 4TH LOWEST JOBLESS RATE

Maryland has the fourth lowest unemployment rate in the nation.  Figures released by the U.S. Labor Department show the state added 36-hundred private-sector jobs last month, and February’s jobless rate was two-point-four-percent.  That’s up from two-point-three-percent in January and two-point-two-percent in December.  The Private Education and Health Services sector saw the most job growth last month with the addition of two-thousand positions.  The Leisure and Hospitality sector was next, adding 14-hundred jobs.  There were 76-thousand jobless Marylanders out of a labor force of about three-point-two-million.  The state’s unemployment rate was well below the national average, which was three-point-nine-percent in February.