(KNZA)--Unemployment was down in area northeast Kansas counties in August.
That’s according to the latest report by the Kansas Department of Labor.
Atchison County had the highest unemployment rate at 5.8 percent while Nemaha County had the lowest at 2.8 percent.
Elsewhere, Brown County’s jobless rate in August stood at 3.8 percent; Doniphan, 5 percent; Jackson, 5 percent; Jefferson, 5.1 percent; Leavenworth, 5.3 percent; Marshall, 3.1 percent and Pottawtomie, 4.5 percent.
All the figures were down from July and also from August 2013.
Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in August was 4.9 percent, unchanged from July and down from 5.5 percent in August 2013.
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