(Olympia, WA)  --  Washington's unemployment rate is holding steady, hitting five-point-eight percent for the seventh straight month.  The Washington Employment Security Department says the state lost 500 jobs from May 2016 to June 2016, but has gained nearly 97-thousand jobs since June 2015.  The department says private-sector employment increased by about one-thousand jobs, but government employment fell by 15-hundred for a net loss of 500 jobs in June.