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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's unemployment rate ticked down in September to 3.6 percent, about one-tenth of a percent lower than a month earlier.
The national unemployment rate held steady in September at 5.1 percent.
Numbers released Friday by Utah's Department of Workforce Services show that there were 51,700 more jobs in September than there were during the same month in 2014.
Utah gained about 10,000 jobs in the education and health sector, 9,300 jobs in professional and business services and 9,300 more in leisure and hospitality.
The state lost about 1,000 jobs in natural resources and mining industry.
DWS spokesman Nic Dunn says economists believe that's because of falling oil prices, which has caused a drop in eastern Utah's oil production and fewer active oil rigs and oil industry jobs.
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