(MSC News)--Unemployment was down in area northeast Kansas counties in March from February.
According to report released Friday by the Kansas Department of Labor, the only exception was in Nemaha County which saw it jobless rate hold steady at 2.4 percent.
Nemaha County had the lowest unemployment rate among area counties, while Atchison County had the highest at 4.5 percent.
Elsewhere, Brown County’s unemployment rate in March was 3.2 percent; Doniphan, 3.7 percent; Jackson, 3 percent; Jefferson, 3.4 percent; Leavenworth, 3.8 percent; Marshall, 2.8 percent and Pottawatomie, 2.7 percent.
Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in March was 3.4 percent. That’s unchanged from February and down from 3.7 percent in March 2017.
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