(MSC News)--Unemployment rates in most area northeast Kansas Counties decreased or remained the same last month.
That’s according to figures recently released by the Kansas Department of Labor.
Atchison County had the highest jobless rate in the area at 6.3 percent while Nemaha County had the lowest at 2.9 percent.
Elsewere, Brown County’s unemployment rate in February stood at 3.7 percent; Doniphan, 4.1 percent; Jackson, 3.9 percent; Jefferson, 4.7 percent; Marshall, 3.4 percent and Pottawatomie, 3.6 percent.
All the figures were down from January except in Brown, Nemaha and Marshall Counties. Brown and Marshall Counties saw their unemployment rates hold steady while Nemaha County saw a one-tenth of a percent increase.
Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in February was 4 percent. That’s unchanged from January but down from 4.3 percent in February 2015.
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