Indiana’s unemployment rate drops to 12.3 percent for May and is lower than the national rate of 13.3 percent.

For the ninth consecutive month, Indiana added private sector jobs with July’s increase totaling 3,300. For 2012, the rate of job growth in the Hoosier state (1.7 percent) continues to exceed the U.S. average (1.0 percent). Since July 2009, the low point of employment, Indiana has added more than 143,000 private sector jobs and has …read more.