Snow, cold wiped out nearly 9,000 Minnesota jobs last month, may signal a bigger turn

Cold weather and heavy snow pushed more than 6,000 Minnesota construction workers off the job in February and lifted the state's unemployment rate for the second month in a row.

The new data released Thursday by the state jobs agency also showed the first decline since 2010 in a 12-month measure of Minnesota's job market.

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