Unemployment was 4.2 percent in Shelby County in December, up from 4.0 in November, according to the latest data from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Office of Workforce Development, Bureau of Labor Market Information.
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Indiana’s unemployment rate ended 2015 by remaining stable at 4.4 percent.
At 4.4%, the Hoosier unemployment rate remains at its lowest level since August of 2001.
The biggest decline in any sector was government, which had 800 fewer jobs in December 2015 than the month before, the agency reported.
“After the period of job loss we experienced during the Great Recession, we went through a number of years where we were growing between 1 and 2 percent”, Hall said.
The report showed Arkansas’ civilian labor force increased by 1,400, the result of 3,700 more employed and 2,300 fewer unemployed Arkansans.
Manufacturing added 1,300 jobs, 1,000 of them in nondurable goods manufacturing.
OH was the next-closest in terms of unemployment rate at 4.7 percent, followed by MI at 5.1 percent, Kentucky at 5.3 percent and IL at 5.9 percent.
The largest month-over-month gains were in the construction, leisure and hospitality and manufacturing industries.
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Colorado’s jobless rate is tied for the seventh lowest in the nation.
