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some states record-low joblessness rates
Skagit County’s non-occasionally changed joblessness rate as of January 2022 was 6.4%, an increment from December 2021’s non-occasionally changed joblessness pace of 4.8%. Two years after the beginning of the Covid pandemic caused a series of mass cutbacks unheard of since the Great Depression, 10 states have now set new record low joblessness rates as organizations scramble to enlist new laborers. Another report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows Nebraska and Utah wore the most minimal joblessness rates in the country in January, at simply 2.2 percent each. In Indiana, the joblessness rate remains at 2.4 percent; in Kansas, it is at 2.6 percent. Washington’s Employment Security Department…