Local unemployment rates are heading back up, even as the number of residents working is also increasing. Pulaski County’s unemployment rate rose a full percentage point to 10.4 percent, according to the June report from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. Starke County had a smaller increase from 12.4 percent in May to 12.6 in June.
But the report also shows hundreds more Starke and Pulaski County residents working in June than the month before. More people appear to be actively looking for work, increasing the counties’ labor forces.
In any case, both counties’ unemployment rates are more than three times what they were in June of 2019. Indiana and the U.S. as a whole both saw a non-seasonally adjusted rate of 11.2 percent last month.
