February unemployment rate

Alabama’s February Unemployment Rate at 4.0%

Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced Friday that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted February 2021 unemployment rate is 4.0%, down from January’s rate of 4.3%, yet above February 2020’s rate of 2.6%. February’s rate represents 91,065 unemployed persons, compared to 97,725 in January and 58,639 in February 2020. “The unemployment rate continues to drop and is getting closer to…