PROVIDENCE – The New England jobless rate was 5.2 percent in March, 1 percentage point less than it was in March 2014, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The New England jobless rate was slightly less than the national rate of 5.5 percent in March, which was 1.1 percentage points lower than in March 2014.
In March, all six New England states had jobless rates that were significantly different from the national average – Vermont, 3.8 percent; New Hampshire, 3.9 percent; and Maine and Massachusetts, 4.8 percent each, had significantly lower rates, while Connecticut and Rhode Island had rates measurably higher than the national average at 6.4 percent and 6.3 percent, respectively.
