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Local area unemployment data are not seasonally adjusted. The USA preliminary rate for August was 5.1 percent, down 0.2 percent from July.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, speaking at a press conference at The Jackson Laboratory in Farmington about the jobs report, noted that a 4.5 percent increase in wages over the past year is “a pretty extraordinary number in this marketplace”. That is above the national rate...