Thursday, October 25, 2012

Kentucky Employment Rates Released

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...The Kentucky Office of Employment and Training released jobless rates Thursday showing improvement in 108 counties in September. The new information also shows that 12 counties saw unemployment worsen. Woodford County had the lowest jobless rate in the state at 5.3 percent. Fulton County had the highest unemployment rate at 16.7 percent. Magoffin County was at 15.8 percent. The coalfield counties of Bell, Harlan, Jackson, Leslie, Letcher, Knott, Perry and Wolfe all were between 12.3 percent and 13.7 percent.