(MSC News)--Unemployment was down in area northeast Kansas counties in August.
According to figures released Friday by the Kansas Department of Labor, Atchison County continued to have the highest unemployment rate at 4.7 percent, while Nemaha County continued to have the lowest at 2.4 percent.
Elsewhere, Brown County’s jobless rate last month was 3.3 percent; Doniphan, 3.5 percent; Jackson, 2.9 percent; Jefferson, 3.1 percent; Leavenworth, 3.7 percent; Marshall, 2.6 percent and Pottawatomie, 2.9 percent.
All the figures are down from July and down from August 2017.
Statewide, the Department of Labor said the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in August was 3.3 percent. That’s down from 3.4 percent in July and down from 3.6 percent in August 2017.
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