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LOCAL UNEMPLOYMENT CONTINUES ON SLOW BUT STEADY UPWARD TREND

(Wayne County, IN)--Unemployment continues to inch upward in Wayne County.  New numbers released by the state Monday put Wayne County’s unemployment rate at 3.7%.  It makes the fourth straight month unemployment has increased and is also the highest rate in a year and a half.  There are also now 261 fewer people in Wayne County’s workforce than there were at this point last year.  Other Indiana counties in the Whitewater Valley are seeing the same slow but steady increases in unemployment rates.