INSIDE: After Britain leaves the European Union, what’s next? A6 Thinking about voting absentee? Sumter County Voter Registration Office, 141 N. Main St., will be open from 9 a.m. to noon today to allow voters to cast absentee ballots for Tuesday’s Primary Election Runoff. For more information, call (803) 436-2310. SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2016 | Serving South Carolina since October 15, 1894 75 cents Unemployment continues to drop in S.C. ing new facilities in the state. This has much steady as she goes,” said Rich- led to another record high employ- ard Kaglic, regional research econo- Tri-county area reflects trend ment month, meaning more people mist with Federal Reserve Bank of are able to provide for themselves and Richmond. BY JIM HILLEY South Carolina Department of Em- their families.” Kaglic said the vast majority of in-
[email protected] ployment and Workforce. The rate was The number of people employed in- creasing payroll numbers in South 6.1 percent in May 2015. creased by 2,988 to 2,184,782 during the Carolina is from the private sector and The addition of nearly 3,000 jobs “I continue to be encouraged to see month and by 71,401 in the past year, is broad-based. and a drop of more than 1,500 people the commitment businesses are mak- according to seasonally adjusted num- “(There was) a little softness in in the labor force helped the South ing to South Carolina,” said Cheryl bers released. trade, transportation and utilities and Carolina unemployment rate drop to Stanton, executive director of the de- The number of unemployed people financial services but nothing major,” 5.6 percent in May, down from 5.8 per- partment.