Adams County jobless rate improves in October 2008

Decatur Daily Democrat

    Adams County was reported earlier this year to have the second-worst unemployment rate in Indiana, a rate near 10 percent. According to a state report for October, however, the county is tied for the fourth-best unemployment rate in the 11-county northeastern Indiana area.

    The county's October unemployment level was 7.1 percent, the same as Wabash County.
    The region's five worse counties last month, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, were the following:
    LaGrange, 10.4 percent.
    Noble, 9.5 percent.
    DeKalb, eight percent.
    Steuben, 7.7 percent.
    Kosciusko, 7.6 percent.
    The counties doing better than Adams and Wabash in October were Wells at 5.3 percent, Allen at 5.9 percent, Whitley at 6.2 percent, and Huntington at 6.7 percent.
     Preliminary numbers released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics put Indiana's unemployment rate at 6.4 percent, its highest level since February 1987, although the state's jobless rate also touched 6.4 percent in August.