LI's jobless rate: Not worst, not best
Careerbuilder.com holds a job fair at the Melville Marriott Long Island. Long Island’s March unemployment rate was 7.2 percent, unchanged from a year earlier, the state Labor Department said Tuesday, April 24. (April 18, 2012) Credit: Charles Eckert
Long Island’s March unemployment rate of 7.2 percent is unchanged from a year earlier, but the individual counties’ rate rose slightly, according to the latest data from the state Labor Department.
In Nassau, which had the lower rate of the two counties, the jobless stat ticked up to 6.7 percent from 6.6 a year ago. Suffolk’s jobless rate inched up to 7.7 percent in March from 7.6 percent the year before. Both rates remain at recession levels.
One comforting take-away from the latest statewide comparative data, though, is that the Island doesn’t have the worst unemployment rate. That belongs to the Bronx, which had a 13.6 percent jobless rate in March.
But the Island doesn’t have the best rate, either. That belongs to Tompkins County -- home to Ithaca and Cornell University -- which had a 5.9 percent unemployment rate.
For a full state Labor Department list of county rankings click here.
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