The latest unemployment data indicates a slight pause in the Rochester region’s post-pandemic economic recovery for the first time since March 2021.
This past December there were 100 fewer private sector jobs in the Rochester metro area compared to a year earlier.
“It’s a very small number when we’re considering over 400,000 jobs in the area,” said Kurt Meichtry, a senior economist for the New York state Department of Labor. “It’s just that this is the first month we’ve been negative.”…