Slight Drop in Jobless Rate




The New York State Labor Department reported last Thursday that Putnam County's rate of unemployment was 6.8 percent for October, down from 7 percent for the previous three months. The numbers compare to a 4.4 percent unemployment rate a year ago and a distant reminder that in 1998, Putnam's 2.2 percent rate of unemployment was the lowest in all of […]

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