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Northumberland County unemployment rate increases .5 percent

by justin strawser

Northumberland County's unemployment rate jumped .5 percent from July to August, taking it to the highest it's been all year.

According to information released Tuesday by the Department of Labor and Industry (DLI), the August rate was 9.3 percent compared to July's rate of 8.8 percent.

This most recent rate is lower than it was a year ago at 10.1 percent and two years ago, also at 10.1 percent. The county unemployment rate crested during the recession at 10.6 percent in October 2009.

The county unemployment rate remains between the seasonably adjusted national and state levels, which are 9.1 percent and 8.2 percent, respectively.

Jobless rates in neighboring counties are Montour, 7 percent; Juniata, 7.7 percent; Dauphin, 8.2 percent; Perry, 8.3 percent; Columbia, 8.4 percent; Snyder, 8.5 percent; Lycoming, 8.6 percent; Union, 8.8 percent; and Schuylkill, 10 percent.

Of those nine counties, Montour and Perry had the largest jumps in August at .7 percent.

Centre County, at 6.5 percent, has the lowest jobless rate in Pennsylvania. Cameron County, at 12 percent, has the highest.


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