Alaska's unemployment rate was 7 percent in May, essentially unchanged from the previous month.
State labor department officials say the unemployment rate was 6.9 percent in April. A web posting from the state calls the one-tenth of a percentage point essentially unchanged.
The national unemployment rate last month was 8.2 percent. Alaska's unemployment rate in May 2011 was 7.5 percent.
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