(Wayne County, IN)--Wayne County’s unemployment rate is up slightly.  New numbers from the state put Wayne County’s unemployment rate at 3.6%.  The most eye-opening number in Tuesday’s report is that 239 people have joined Wayne County’s labor force in the last month.  The total number is now just 78 people short of 30,000.  Other Whitewater Valley counties saw similar small increases in their unemployment rates.  That includes Fayette County, which rose to 4.6% and now has the third highest rate in Indiana.