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(MSC News)-- Unemployment was up in area northeast Kansas counties in January. That’s according to the latest figures released by the Kansas Department of Labor.
Atchison County continued to have the highest jobless rate in the area at 6.4 percent and Nemaha County the lowest at 2.8 percent.
Elsewhere, Brown County’s unemployment rate in January was 3.7 percent; Doniphan, 4.2 percent; Jackson., 4 percent; Jefferson, 5.1 percent; Leavenworth, 5.1 percent, Marshall, 3.5 percent and Pottawatomie, 4 percent.
All the figures were up from December 2015.
Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4 percent in January. That’s unchanged from December but down from 4.3 percent in January 2015.
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