Starke and Pulaski County residents are heading back to work. The Indiana Department of Workforce Development’s May report showed that almost 1,000 more Starke County residents were employed than the month before, while Starke County’s unemployment rate dropped by seven percent to 12.4.
The trend was similar in Pulaski County. The number of residents employed increased by more than 700, and the unemployment rate dropped by more than six percent to 9.4 percent in May. But both counties’ unemployment rates are still more than three times what they were during the same period last year.
The state as a whole saw a non-seasonally adjusted rate of 11.9 percent last month, while the U.S. rate was 13 percent.
