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By FRANCES HISHUI'F and
JOHN BRETSCHNEIDER
Rappahannock Ne»« StaffWriter*
The unemployment rate in Rappahannock County jumped from 8.6 percent in May to 12 percent in June of this year, representing a loss of jobs for approximately 140 people in the county.
White the Virginia Employment Commission theorized in its monthly report that the jump in Rappahannock could be attributed to an influx of seasonal workers who have not yet started to work, it appears that these workers are just now moving to the county and would not be jacked up as statistics as of yet.
Conway Porter, unemployment insurance manager of the Culpeper VEC suggested that possibly the jump could be the result of layoffs at several plants in surrounding counties.
Gene Schultz, job service manager of the Winchester VEC, said the most likely reasons for the jump could possibly be June statistics picking up the graduating high school students and the continuing recession related slowdown in the building industry.
In June of 1991, the unemployment rate in Rappahannock was 7.6 percent, almost five percent less than what it is today.
While Rappahannock’s rate is far higher than any of the other counties in Planning District 9, Schultz pointed out that it is pretty much in line with other surrounding counties such as Page or Warren. “Rappahannock, like Page and Warren, is suffering from the fact that many of its construction workers are not employed,” he said.
"Because Rappahannock has such an extremely small labor force, (currently 3,531 employed, 482 unSee
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