Triangle unemployment hits 8.7% - Triangle Business Journal:

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The local unemployment rate was 8.7 percent, accordingb to the . That’s up from 4.3 percent in Februargy 2008. The local data are not adjusted forseasonapl effects. They include Wake, Durham, Chatham, Franklin, Harnett, Johnston and Person counties. The Triangle’es jobless picture is stilll faring better than that of the state as a helped by steady jobs inhealth care, education and The seasonally unadjusted unemploymen rate in February was 11.3 Things were slightly better in the Triangle’ss urban counties and slightly worse in the rural new data show. In Wake County, unemployment was 8.3 In Durham County, it was 8 percent. Orange County’ss unemployment is 6.
5 percent, the lowest rate in the Meanwhile, the rate in Franklin which has been hit hard by a loss ofmanufacturingg jobs, is 11 percent. In the rate is 11.8 percent. In it’s 12.6 percent.