Minnesota added just 2,500 jobs in January, enough to hold its unemployment rate at 3.3%. While that may sound wonderful, Minnesota is lagging much of the rest of the country in terms of new jobs. Minnesota’s job growth in January ranked 35th in the nation, and a lot of the growth was in government jobs rather than the private sector, according to Beth Kadoun, as told to Watchdog.org. The state’s job growth had outpaced the nation in the early 2000s, but since then it has lagged behind the country’s average much of the time.
