RBC I After three months of watching Rio Blanco County’s unemployment rate rise, January’s numbers showed a significant .40 percent drop.
The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported March 16 that Rio Blanco’s unemployment rate rose to 5.1 percent during December after increases in October and November as well.
January’s jobless rate fell to 4.7 percent. In January of 2015, the rate was at 6.1 percent, so there has been a drop of 1.4…