County

Rio Blanco jobless rate continues to increase

RBC I December and January saw solid drops in the Rio Blanco County jobless rate, but a sharp increase in the unemployment between January and February, which saw a .07 percent increase in the county, continued to rise another half percent in March.

The good news is that March’s 5.9 percent unemployment rate is still below the jobless rate in the county for March 2015, when 6.3 percent of the available workforce was unemployed in…