( MSC News) --Unemployment was up in all by one area northeast Kansas counties in December.
That’s according to the latest figures released by the Kansas Department of Labor.
Atchison County continued to have the highest unemployment rate at 5.2 percent and Nemaha County the lowest at 2.3 percent.
Elsewhere, Brown County’s jobless in December stood at 3.2 percent; Doniphan, 3.6 percent; Jackson, 3 percent; Jefferson, 3.6 percent; Leavenworth, 4 percent; Marshall, 2.9 percent and Pottawatomie, 3.1 percent.
All the figures were up from November except in Brown County which saw it’s jobless rate hold steady.
Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in December was 3.9 percent. That’s unchanged from November, but down from 4.2 percent in December 2014.
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