By Gary Ogle
gogle@wbcowqel.com
Crawford County’s unemployment rate took a summer dip and this time it’s because more people are working and not because fewer are job hunting.
May’s jobless rate in the county dropped three-tenths from April to 8.2 percent. But that number is still higher by a tenth of a percent than it was one year earlier.
Among the neighboring counties Huron took the biggest drop from 10.3 to 8.9 percent, not surprising with the significant number of migrant farms jobs there. Richland County’s unemployment rate remained steady at 7.8 percent, while Marion County jumped four-tenths to 7.4 and the jobless situation in Seneca County also took a step back with a two-tenths increase to 7.1 percent. Morrow and Wyandot counties each dropped two-tenths off their unemployment rates.
In conjunction with the unemployment rate drop the labor pool and the number of people working both increased in Crawford County by 200 while the number of unemployed remained the same.