21.   A couple of years later, the teen jobless rate began dropping again.

22.   A high jobless rate hurts states by reducing tax revenues and increasing costs for unemployment aid, welfare and health care.

23.   A rise in part-time jobs, particularly in the service industry, could foreshadow a decline in the jobless rate in coming months, economists said.

24.   A rising jobless rate erodes tax revenue and boosts welfare spending.

25.   A rising jobless rate erodes tax revenue and leads to higher government spending.

26.   A slight rise in the jobless rate was caused by an expansion of the labor force.

27.   Also, weather changes, layoffs and other one-time events can cause jobless rates to jump around from month to month.

28.   British Columbia has been in a growth recession, growth without any real improvement in the jobless rate, for several years, Pastrick said.

29.   But strong growth in employment in April, including self-employment, accounted for more than half the decline in the jobless rate.

30.   But the labor force contracted a bit more, enough to trim a statistically insignificant one-tenth of a point off the jobless rate.