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.theTtumber of people
in Rappahannock is so
sparse that the numbers
of people out of work
affect the rate more. ’
— Robert Hale-Cooper
Va. Employment Comm.
distribution company that was privately owned, added enough unemployed workers to affect the rate in Rappahannock by about one percentage point.
Sharp increases in joblessness across the five-county Planning District 9 were first noticed in November, said Mr. Hale-Cooper.
Other localities, their jobless rates and their rates a year ago (in parentheses): Culpeper, 8.5 percent (5 percent); Fauquier, 4.9 percent (2.9 percent); Madison, 5.4 percent (4 percent); Orange, 8.1 percent (4.1 percent); Virginia, 5.8 percent (4.4 percent); U.S., 7 . percent (5.9 percent).
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