From Chronicle-Tribune staff and wire reports
The unemployment rates in the city, county, state and nation rose in March.
According to the monthly labor force estimate report by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, Marion's unemployment rate in March 2009 was 14.1 percent, up from 13.4 percent in February and from 9 percent in March 2008.
Among the 34 Indiana cities with a population of at least 25,000, Marion was tied with East Chicago for the fourth-highest rate in the state, trailing Elkhart (20.7 percent), Goshen (18.6 percent) and Kokomo (14.6 percent). West Lafayette (5 percent), Fishers (5.5 percent) and Bloomington (5.6 percent) had the lowest rates of unemployment.
In the county, the March 2009 unemployment rate was 12.8 percent, up from 12.1 percent in February and from 7.6 percent in March 2008.
Yet while the local rate has continued to climb, Grant County's rank among other Indiana counties has steadily fallen in the past six months. The county had the 26th-highest unemployment rate in the state in March, down from 24th in January.
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