BOSTON, MA -March 19, 2015 

MA unemployment rate drops to 4.9% from 5.1% in Jan and 6.0% in Feb 2014. The labor participation rate, the share of working age residents employed, rose to 65.9% up 0.3% from Jan and up 1% from a year ago.  There were 3,430,500 residents employed and 177,300 unemployed in Feb. 

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