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Local unemployment rates improve

By Greg Bebermeyer

06/22/2020

(KNZA)--Unemployment rates in local northeast Kansas counties improved in May after rising significantly in April due to COVID-19.

According to a report released Friday by the Kansas Department of Labor, Jackson County had the highest jobless rate among area counties at 11.2 percent, while Marshall and Nemaha tied for the lowest rate at 4.6 percent.

Elsewhere, Atchison County's unemployment rate was 10 percent; Brown, 7.4 percent; Doniphan, 7.1 percent; Jefferson, 7.9 percent; Leavenworth, 10.5 percent; and Pottawatomie, 6.5 percent.

All the figures were down from April, but up significantly from May 2019.

Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in May was 10 percent. That's down nearly two percentage points from April, but up from 3.1 percent in May 2019.

Senior Labor Economist, Tyler Tenbrink, said the preliminary May estimates show Kansas gained back 17 percent of the jobs lost in March and April due to efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19.

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