MS unemployment lowest, but …

Mississippi's 4.6 percent seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for December 2017 is the lowest since the U.S. Labor Department began calculating state unemployment rates in 1976, according to data released by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security. The jobless rate in the state is 0.9 percent lower than December 2016. However, its jobs recovery rate lags behind the national average for December (4.1 percent). Among the Golden Triangle counties, Oktibbeha had the lowest rate in July (4.1 percent), but is the only county in the GT to have seen unemployment rise from November (0.1 percent). (Source: Columbus Dispatch 01/26/18)