Lincoln County pre-holiday unemployment predictably higher - Daily Leader

Lincoln County pre-holiday unemployment predictably higher - Daily Leader

In a typical pre-holiday pattern, unemployment in Lincoln County prior to the Christmas season was slightly higher than across the rest of the year, at 4 percent. That’s 580 people unemployed from an available work force of 14,540. The November numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the county’s average was just above the state average of 3.8 — 48,802 total unemployed of 1.28 million individuals. The national average was 4.3 — 7.83 mil…