RBC I For the second month in a row, the unemployment rate in Rio Blanco County has gone up, and the increase from 4.5 percent of the available workforce to 4.9 percent of that workforce is the largest increase in the county’s jobless rate in two years.
The county’s jobless rate of 4.9 percent for November is up from 4.5 percent in October, according to the non-seasonally adjusted labor force figures from the U.S. Department…