The state’s unemployment rate went down to 8.5 percent last month.
It was 12.1 percent in May, and 3.4 percent in June of last year.
Companies added more than 99,000 jobs, and there are almost 105,000 more in the public and private sectors.
The numbers are still down by nearly 246,000 in the private sector from June of last year, and about 294,000 in the public and private sectors.
