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Published: Fri, May 16, 2008 - 3:12 pm
slightly in April to 4.0 percent.
State Industrial Relations Director Tom Surtees said the April
rate was down from 4.1 percent in March, but it was up from the 3.4
percent recorded a year ago.
Alabama's rate compared to a national unemployment figure of 4.5
percent. Alabama tied Kansas for the 17th lowest unemployment rate
in the nation. Virginia was the only state in the Southeast with an
unemployment rate lower than Alabama in April.
The state Department of Industrial Relations reported that
Alabama counties with the lowest jobless rates were Shelby at 2.3
percent, Madison at 2.5 percent, and Baldwin, Tuscaloosa and
Limestone at 2.7 percent. The counties with the highest rates were
Chambers at 10.7 percent, Wilcox at 9.5 percent and Dallas at 8.0
percent.
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