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percent rate. That’s up .5 percentage points from September, when the rate was 7.3 percent.
Unemployment in the county had peaked last January with 544 people jobless, a rate of 15.6 percent, then dropped to 11 percent, 10.5 percent and 7.7 percent in the following months. But this summer th£ rate started back up, hitting 8.6 percent in July.
Ms. Bowen said the department’s new caseload reflects trends in employment countywide. “We’re seeing
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