Report: Jobless Numbers Down From October 2011
Although unemployment is down from a year ago, October 2012 numbers increased slightly from the prior month.
Jobless rates in Illinois increased slightly from September 2012 to October but still are down from a year earlier, according to new figures released last week. October local unemployment rates fell in every metro area compared to last year, according to data released by the U.S. Labor Department and the Illinois Department of Employment Security. In Kane County’s portion of St. Charles, the jobless rate rose a half of a percentage point from September to October 2012; but October’s numbers dropped 1.4 points from a year earlier. In the DuPage County portion of the city, there was no month-to-month change, although unemployment dropped 3.9 percentage points from October 2011 to October 2012. “Falling unemployment rates across our state and…
