Unemployment rate
Colorado’s overall unemployment rate dropped to 2.8 percent during August, according to figures from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The drop was slight, just two-tenths of 1 percentage point. This helped push the jobless rate well below last August, when 4 percent of the state’s work force was unemployed. So far this year, the jobless rate in the state has ranged from 2.7 percent to 3.1 percent. Total employment in Colorado was up 57,000 for the first eight months of 1999, compared to the same period a year ago. The department noted the state’s two largest industries; trade and services were responsible for creating 28,300 of Colorado’s 36,500 new jobs over the past year. There were several developments in the Colorado labor force over the last year in a half. Seasonally adju
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