While the county’s rate of unemployment has shown improvement over the last few months, it still stands as one of the highest in the state; ranking 76 out of 82 counties. The highest unemployment rate in April (19.6%)was in Issaquena County.
Mississippi’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for April 2011 was 10.4 percent. The state’s seasonally adjusted series reported an over the month increase of two-tenths of a percentage point from 10.2 in March. When compared to one year ago, the rate was two tenths of a percentage point lower than the 10.6 percent reported for April 2010.
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