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Adair jobless rate climbs almost 1% from year ago

ColumbiaMagazine.com Charts of Greater Adair County unemployment, workforce rankings below. Local rate drops from month ago high of 7.1%.

Adair County's jobless rate climbed from 5.6% to 6.4% from August 2007 to August 2008, the latest unemployment figures from the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet show.




Unemployment rates, Greater Adair Co. area
August 2008
  1. Casey County, 6.09% unemployment
  2. Taylor County, 6.12% unemployment
  3. Adair County, 6.4% unemployment
  4. Metcalfe County, 6.6% unemployment
  5. Cumberland County, 6.8% unemployment
  6. Green County, 7.7% unemployment
  7. Russell County, 8.1% unemployment
The Adair County jobless rate is above the national jobless rate of 6.1%, but below the Kentucky rate of 6.5%. The latest figures also show the total number in the Adair County civilian labor force dropping below the 9,000 mark, to 8,951, still second highest in the Greater Adair County area to Taylor County.


Civilian Labor Force, August 2008
Greater Adair County Area

  1. Taylor County, 13,750 workers
  2. Adair County, 8,951 workers
  3. Russell County, 8,272 workers
  4. Casey County, 7,417 workers
  5. Green County, 5,749 workers
  6. Metcalfe County, 4,548 workers
  7. Cumberland County, 2,968 workers
The August jobless figure for Adair County was lower than the 7.1% jobless rate recorded in July, when out-of-work numbers reached 28.4% of what the national rate was in the depths of the Great Depression.


This story was posted on 2008-10-02 03:50:09
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