Wells, NE Indiana at Full Employment
Åuburn may get Most unvaccinated Cubs beat a sports complex don’t want the shot Diamondbacks Area State Page 12 Page 3 Sports Page 6 The News-Bannerwww.News-Banner.com MONDAY, JULY 26, 2021 BLUFFTON, INDIANA • Wells County’s Hometown Connection $1.00 Wells, NE Indiana at full employment County’s jobless rate stands at 3.3 percent, tied for 10th lowest in the state By DAVE SCHULTZ Region 3 — Adams, Allen, DeKalb, ployment exist across the state — Wells County once again has one of Grant, Huntington, LaGrange, Noble, Kokomo-Muncie-Marion, Terre Haute, the state’s lowest unemployment rates. Steuben, Wabash, Wells and Whit- and the northwest Indiana/South Bend The Indiana Department of Work- ley counties — are considered at “full area. force Development released its prelim- employment” with a jobless rate under “We are heading into a period where inary unemployment rates for June last 5 percent. The analysis notes that we can more reliably make compari- week. Those numbers showed Wells Grant County had the region’s high- sons to a year ago, as the public health tied with Steuben County at 3.3 per- est unemployment rate at 4.9 percent restrictions started to lift, but June cent. That was the 10th-lowest mark — the only county in the region to be 2021 doesn’t look anything like June among Indiana’s 92 counties. above the state’s 4.7 percent rate. 2020 from a labor market perspec- Two other northeast Indiana coun- The analysis also says that all of the tive,” said Rachel Blakeman, director ties tied for the lowest unemploy- counties in EGR3 had an increase in of the Community Research Institute ment rate in the state, with Adams and the number of unemployed workers in at Purdue-Fort Wayne, said in a state- LaGrange both at 2.8 percent.
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