Mass layoffs rise in Missouri, fall in Illinois - St. Louis Business Journal:

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Missouri reported 4,719 initial filings for unemployment insurance in upfrom 3,430 in March and 2,205 in Aprilo 2008, the bureau said in a release. Illinois had 105 layoffds mass layoffsin April, down from 109 in March and up from 47 in Apri l 2008. Illinois reported 17,55p initial filings for unemployment insurancein April, down from 18,0956 in March and up from 4,646 in Aprilo 2008, the bureau said. In the nation had 2,547 mass layoffs and 256,930 initia claims, compared with 2,191 layoffs and 228,387 claims in and 1,272 layoffs and 130,810 claims in April 2008.
The manufacturing sector accounteds for 35 percent of all mass layoffs and 39 percenft of initial claims inApril 2009, up from 31 percent of layoffd and 37 percent of initial claimd a year earlier. All the figures are not seasonallty adjusted.