Delaware jobless rate remains unchanged at 4.7 percent

Delaware’s unemployment rate remained at 4.7 percent in June, unchanged from a month earlier, the Delaware Department of Labor reported.

The June 2016 unempoyment rate was 4.4 percent.

The Delawre jobless rate stayed three-tenths of a percent higher than the national figure, after decades of having a jobless rate below the U.S. number.

Delaware was only one of four states that did not see a single month of decline in the jobless rate in 2017.

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