Starke, Pulaski Unemployment Rates See Little Change in October

Posted on November 21, 2019
Author Michael Gallenberger, WKVI

Unemployment rates are relatively steady in Starke and Pulaski counties. Starke County’s October unemployment rate was 3.5 percent, according to the latest report from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. That’s down from 3.6 percent the month before and 3.8 percent during the same period last year.

Pulaski County’s unemployment rate went up a tenth of a percent to 2.7 percent in October, which is the same as it was in October of 2018. But Pulaski County continues to see growth in its labor force, and the actual number of people employed is also going up.

The state as a whole saw a non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of three percent in October, while the national rate remained at 3.3 percent.