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The District’s unemployment rate fell to 9.1 percent in June, according to the latest figures put out by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The jobless rate stood at 9.1 percent, a drop of .2 percentage points from May and down from 10.4 percent recorded in June 2011.

The education and health services sectors provided the largest increase in the overall number of jobs, adding 3,800 positions in June. The construction and professional service industries also added jobs, but the District’s gains were offset by declines in tourism, transportation, financial and government payroll.

Still, the BLS report continued a trend of a consistently declining unemployment rate for the District. Jobless numbers ticked up in Maryland and Virginia, however. Maryland’s unemployment rate jumped to 6.9 percent from 6.7, while Virginia increased from 5.6 percent to 5.7 percent.

But increases in the unemployment rate are typical for June, an economist at George Mason University told the Post. “Job growth is inevitably weak in June because of all of the graduates coming into the workforce from high school and college,” said Stephen S. Fuller, director of the Center for Regional Analysis.

The District’s unemployment rate is now less than a full percentage point behind the national rate, which remained steady at 8.2 percent.