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Rappahannock jumped the gun on the double digit inflation that hit 10.1 percent nationwide in September.
According to the manpower bulletin from the Culpeper office of the Virginia Employment Commission, the county’s unemployment rate reached that mark in August, a month before the country as a whole
Rappahannock retained the dubious distinction of leading the area in jobless rate. For the month of August. Culpeper County’s unemployment figure stood at 7.5 percent. Orange’s at 9.8 percent. Madison’s at 8.1 percent and Fauquier’s at 4.4 percent
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