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Delaware Unemployment Rate Inches Up to 4.9%

david mulder
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creative commons

Delaware’s jobless rate rose to 4.9 percent last month.

This is the fourth increase in the seasonally adjusted rate in the last five months.

And it is above the national average of 4.4 percent.

WBOC reports that Kent County had the highest rate of the state’s three counties at 6 percent.

New Castle County was next with 5.3 percent.

Sussex County had an unemployment rate of 4.3 percent.

The television station reports that the Department of Labor said there was growth in the health care and hospitality industries over the last year.

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.