Minnesota lost 1,300 jobs last month, unemployment ticked up to 3.4%

Minnesota employers cut 1,300 jobs last month as the state tottered around what, with each month of new data, increasingly appears to be the peak of the employment cycle.

The state's unemployment rate climbed another notch to 3.4%, now more than a half-point from its bottom of 2.8% reached during the last four months of 2018.

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