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Unemployment rate continues to drop in Rio Blanco County

RBC I For the fourth straight month, the June unemployment rate is down slightly in Rio Blanco County, using seasonally non-adjusted figures. Unemployment numbers are down more than 1.8 percent from June 2013.

Unemployment as of June 2013 was 6.0 percent, using the same seasonally non-adjusted figures. Since early in 2014, the jobless numbers in Rio Blanco have continued to fall, however slowly, to 4.2 percent in June 2014.
That drop to 4.2 percent is…