Unemployment rates are down in Starke and Pulaski counties, but so is the actual number of people working. According to the latest report from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, Starke County had an unemployment rate of 4.3 percent in September.
That’s down from 4.6 percent the month before and 4.9 percent in September of 2016. Meanwhile, Pulaski County’s September unemployment rate was 3.5 percent, a drop of half a percentage point from both August of 2017 and September of 2016.
But both counties also experienced a drop in their labor force, and the actual number of people working has declined slightly. Marshall County had the lowest September unemployment rate in the local area at three percent. Indiana as a whole saw an unemployment rate of 3.6 percent last month.
