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| Local Unemployment Swells in June |
During a month that typically sees unemployment go down because of warm weather and jobs associated with it, jobless rates in the Galesburg area are up across the board.
The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the unemployment rate last month climbed to 9.2 percent in Galesburg, a jump of 8-tenths of a percent compared to May. Knox County unemployment is at 9 percent, an increase of 7-tenths of a percent. The lowest rate is in Warren County, which is at 7 percent. That number represents a full percentage point increase but still ranks the county as having the 10th lowest unemployment rate in the state.
Unemployment in the Galesburg area as a whole checked in at 8.5 percent, up 1.7 percent from June of last year. Similar increases occurred in Galesburg and Knox County. The rate in Warren County last year at this time was 6.2 percent. The state says the area lost 600 non-farm payroll jobs over the past month, the vast majority of them in the construction and manufacturing sectors.
Fulton County has the highest unemployment rate in the area at 10.9 percent, which is up 1.2 percent from May's rate and 3.8 percent over the past year. Henry County's rate is 8.2 percent and Henderson County 8.1, both up 6-tenths of a percent.
Unemployment in all 12 of the state's metropolitan areas was above previous-year levels in June. The Rockford metro area has the highest rate at 14 percent. The county with the highest rate is Boone at 14.1 percent. Brown County's 4 percent rate is the state's lowest. |
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| 07 23 09 by Newsroom |
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