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(MSC News)--Unemployment was up in area northeast Kansas counties in July from the month before.
That's according to figures released Friday by the Kansas Department of Labor.
Atchison County had the highest unemployment rate among area counties at 4.8 percent, while Nemaha County had the lowest at 2.4 percent.
Elsewhere, Brown County's jobless rate in July stood at 3 percent; Doniphan, 3.3 percent; Jackson, 2.8 percent; Jefferson, 3.2 percent; Leavenworth, 3.5 percent; Marshall, 2.5 percent; and Pottawatomie, 3.2 percent.
All the figures were up from June, but down from July 2021.
Statewide, the unemployment rate in July was 2.4 percent. That's unchanged from June and down from 3.4 percent in July 2021.
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