Alabama Unemployment Rate Steady at 2.6%
Alabama’s unemployment rate held steady at 2.6% and is down from 3.3% during the same period last year.
Alabama’s unemployment rate held steady at 2.6% and is down from 3.3% during the same period last year.
Alabama’s unemployment rate remained at a record 2.6% in July, officials said Friday.
Alabama’s unemployment rate dipped to 3% in February, from 3.1% in January. The counties with the highest employment rates are all in our area.
More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — doubling a record high set just one week earlier — a sign that layoffs are accelerating in the midst of the coronavirus. A Labor Department report shows that job cuts are mounting against the backdrop of economies in the United States and abroad that have almost certainly sunk…