Local unemployment rates are up from the previous month, but still better than the same period a year ago. Starke County’s unemployment rate rose to 4.6 percent in August from 4.1 percent in July, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. The change was similar in Pulaski County, where the August rate was four percent, compared to 3.4 percent the previous month.
But year-over-year, both counties saw a drop of 0.4 percent in their August unemployment. Still, changes in the labor force mean there are actually fewer people working now.
Pulaski County’s August unemployment rate matched the state average at four percent, while the U.S. as a whole saw a rate of 4.5 percent.
