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For the area served by the Culpeper VEC office, the jobless rate for August was 8.4 percent. By comparison, the Virginia figure for the same period was 7.3 percent. National unemployment for August was 9.6 percent.
The Culpeper VEC office reports that 250 Rappahannock residents were without jobs in August out of a workforce of 2,485.
During September, 1981, the VEC office in Culpeper placed 26 people in jobs compared to 18 placements in September, 1982. Unemployment insurance recipients in September, 1981, totaled 899; for the same month this year, the number climbed to 2,004.
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