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Wyoming’s unemployment rate continues to drop as more people either give up looking for a job or leave the state, according to new data from the Wyoming Department of Research and Planning.

The state’s labor force dropped by about 5,210 people, or 1.7 percent, from June 2016 to June 2017. The overall unemployment rate fell from 4.1 percent to 3.9 percent between May and June.

The latest jobs report falls in line with recent statistics out of Research and Planning showing that Wyoming shed about 25,000 jobs from 2014 to 2016. The main cause of the decline has been a drop in energy prices.

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