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Vermont's unemployment rate ticked up one-tenth to 4.1 percent in May over the April rate. Vermont has the fourth lowest unemployment rate in the nation; it was third lowest in April. Vermont also continued to see a decrease in jobs, following a year-to-year trend in which the number of employed, unemployed and total workforce are all down. On a month-to-month basis this time, however, the number of unemployed actually increased; this does not include the recent IBM layoffs that occurred in June. The labor force also increased from April. The US unemployment rate was 7.6 percent, up one-tenth from April.