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State Unemployment Rate Up To 6.6%

16 Oct 2020
Joey Weaver
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Alabama, Department of Labor, Unemployment Rate
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Alabama’s monthly unemployment rate jumped to 6.6% in September as the coronavirus pandemic kept up its continuing damage to the state’s economy, the government reported Friday.

The rate was a full percentage point above the August jobless rate and even worse when compared to the pre-coronavirus rate of 2.7% a year earlier.

The state’s labor secretary, Fitzgerald Washington, said fluctuations in the unemployment rate will likely continue during the pandemic, which is blamed for nearly 2,800 deaths in the state from COVID-19, the illness caused by the new virus.

The September rate represented 148,912 people without jobs, an increase of about 23,000 from a month earlier.

Cullman County, located north of Birmingham, had the state’s lowest jobless rate at 3.8%, with Franklin, Marshall and Randolph counties close behind. Rural Wilcox County in west Alabama was worst at 17%.

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Joey Weaver has worked for WEIS Radio in Centre as the Assistant News Director since 2008 covering news in Northeast Alabama and Northwest Georgia.
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