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(MSC News)--Unemployment was down in area northeast Kansas counties in August from July.
According to the Kansas Department of Labor, Atchison County had the highest unemployment rate at 6.7 percent, while Nemaha County had the lowest at 2.8 percent.
Elsewhere, Brown County’s jobless rate in August was 4.4 percent; Doniphan, 4.7 percent; Jackson, 3.8 percent; Jefferson, 4.2 percent; Leavenworth, 4.8 percent; Marshall, 3 percent and Pottawatomie, 3.9 percent.
The state’s August seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.6 percent. That’s unchanged from July, but up from 4.3 percent in August of last year.
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