The state’s unemployment rate rose for a fifth consecutive month in May, as the number of new job-seekers continued to swell while hiring slowed.

Margaret Benison is a financial advisor in Northborough, MA. She has been in practice for 27 years, the last 27 years at Benison Financial Services.

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