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(KNZA)--Unemployment rates continue to decrease in area northeast Kansas counties.
The Kansas Department of Labor on Friday released the figures for August.
Locally, Atchison County had the highest jobless rate at 8.1 percent, while Marshall County had the lowest at 3.3 percent.
Brown County's unemployment rate was 4.7 percent; Doniphan, 5.2 percent; Jackson, 3.1 percent; Jefferson, 5.2 percent; Leavenworth, 6.7 percent; Nemaha, 4.3 percent and Pottawatomie, 3.8 percent.
All the figures were down from July, but up from August 2019.
Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.9 percent in August. That's down from 7.2 percent in July and up from 3.1 in August 2019.
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