KY Jobless Rate Improves

{Frankfort, Kentucky}…Tuesday, the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training released data showing jobless rates improved in October in 101 counties, worsened in 17 and stayed the same in two. Woodford County had the lowest unemployment rate at 5.6 percent. Magoffin County had the worst unemployment rate in the state at 15.5 percent. Bell, Harlan, Jackson, Knott, Leslie and Letcher counties had unemployment rates ranging from 13 percent to 13.5 percent.