ACCORDING TO THE KENTUCKY CENTER FOR STATISTICS……THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN ALLEN COUNTY ROSE FROM FOU-POINT-EIGHT PERCENT IN
NOVEMBER TO FIVE-PERCENT IN DECEMBER….WHICH WAS ALSO WELL ABOVE THE THREE-POINT-NINE PERCENT RECORDED IN DECEMBER 20-23……
IN THE BARREN RIVER AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT…..JOBLESS RATES RANGED FROM FOUR-POINT-FIVE PERCENT IN SIMPSON COUNTY TO SIX-POINT-ONE
PERCENT IN EDMONSON AND METCALFE COUNTIES.....
AROUND THE COMMONWEALTH…..UNEMPLOYMENT RATES ROSE IN ALL 120 COUNTIES…..
WITH WOODFORD COUNTY RECORDING THE LOWEST JOBLESS RATE AT THREE-POINT-EIGHT PERCENT….
AND MARTIN COUNTY HAD THE COMMONWEALTH’S HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AT 12-POINT-FOUR PERCENT…..