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Nashville teaching jobs (Click here) and healthcare jobs added the most workers during April as the city's unemployment rate continued to drop.

During April, the Nashville area's unemployment rate decreased from 9.5 percent to 9.2 percent, following a decrease from 9.7 percent during March. The latest decrease keeps the area's rate below the national average at the time of 9.9 percent.

The Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin area had a total non-farm employment of 716,100 workers during April, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is up from 713,700 workers during March, but a 1.4 percent decrease from last year.

Only four industries managed to see a monthly increase in employment during April, including: professional and business services by 700 jobs; education and health services by 500 jobs; leisure and hospitality by 1,600 jobs; and other services by 100 jobs.

Employment in the mining, logging and construction; trade, transportation and utilities; and government industries remained even over the month with 28,800 jobs, 142,800 jobs, and 107,700 jobs, respectively.

Three industries added jobs over the year, with the education and health services industry seeing the biggest increase, growing by 1.5 percent. The professional and business services industry increased by 1.2 percent over the year to 92,300 jobs, while the government industry grew by .2 percent.

Employment in the other services industry remained even between April 2009 and April 2010 with 30,100 jobs.

The mining, logging and construction industry took the biggest hit when compared to last year, losing 9.1 percent of its workforce during the 12-month period.

Other industries that saw an over-the-year decrease in employment include:

• Manufacturing by 6.8 percent
• Information by 3.4 percent
• Financial activities by 2.5 percent
• Trade, transportation and utilities by 2.1 percent
• Leisure and hospitality by 1.6 percent

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