State Jobless Rate Steady As Spring Approaches

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) Washington's unemployment rate held steady at 6.3 percent in February.
The Employment Security Department on Wednesday estimated that employment increased by 94,700 jobs from February 2014 to February 2015, with 83,400 of those jobs in the private sector and the rest in government.
Washington's revised unemployment rate for January was also 6.3 percent, down from the initial 6.4 percent. The nation's unemployment rate was 5.5 percent.
The agency says the number of people who do not have a job but actively looked for work in the past four weeks dropped from 224,400 in January to 222,300 in February.
Employment Security paid unemployment benefits to 79,181 people in February.