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Article: County jobless rate grows.(Business)(Unemployment jumps to a seasonally adjusted 13.6 percent, with state numbers at 12 percent and the U.S. at 8.9 percent)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2009
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Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard
Lane County's jobs picture remained bleak in April.
The county's unemployment rate rose to 13.6 percent, up from 12.9 percent in March, and more than double the 5.3 percent rate of April 2008, according to figures released Tuesday by the state Employment Department.
The county's April rate topped the statewide rate of 12 percent and the national rate of 8.9 percent.
Those figures all have been adjusted to even out typical seasonal ups and downs.
The Employment Department has produced seasonally adjusted figures for the county only as far back as 1990. So to compare figures even ...