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Article: Jobless Rate Here Highest In 23 Years ; Hits 5.5% In December. Unemployment Office Adds Staffers, Extends Hours, Opens On Sundays.
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- Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
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- February 3, 2009
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The unemployment rate in Lancaster County soared to a 23-year
high in December, the state Department of Labor & Industry announced
today.
Continuing its astounding one-year ascent, the jobless rate here
hit 5.5 percent, up from 5 percent in November.
Yet, as usual, other parts of the state and nation fared much
worse.
Despite its deterioration, the county unemployment rate still was
third-best among Pennsylvania's 14 metropolitan areas.
The December rate here was the highest since June 1985, when it
hit 7.3 percent in the midst of a recession, the same type of
economic malaise that grips the nation now.
With the jobless rate steadily racheting up, so are the number of
people here and ...