RBC I After more than a year of falling unemployment rates, Rio Blanco County’s jobless rate jumped for the third straight month, rising to 5.1 percent in December.
Rio Blanco County saw a 4.9 percent unemployment rate in November of 2015 and a 5.0 percent jobless rate in December of 2014, but rose to 5.1 percent in December 2015 with a stable workforce in November and December and a one-person decrease in the available workforce…