Turning The Corner, Or Treading Water?
Mecklenburg County’s jobless numbers budged slightly in August, dropping the unemployment rate to 10.5 percent from July’s 10.8 percent, with the county totaling 413,945 jobs compared to the previous month’s 411,416.
The incremental good news is tempered, though, when compared to earlier in the year, when Mecklenburg totaled just shy of 415,000 jobs with an unemployment rate of 10.3 percent in April.
Meanwhile, the greater Char-Meck area’s jobless rate continues to stagnate at 11 percent, compared to the state average of 9.8 percent, and Mecklenburg residents received $17.2 million in unemployment benefits for August, tops in the state.
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