County, city unemployment rates both jump
By The News-Gazette
Tuesday January 29, 2008
DANVILLE – Unemployment rates shot up in December, with some East Central Illinois counties seeing an increase of more than a percentage point from November.
Vermilion County's rate jumped to 7.1 percent in December, up from 6.1 percent in November, according to statistics released last week by the Illinois Department of Employment Security. In December 2006, the county's unemployment rate was only 4.6 percent.
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