INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s unemployment rate rose to 10.6 percent in May and Howard County jumped to 19.3 percent after auto industry furloughs pushed the Kokomo area past northern Indiana as the most-jobless region of the state.
Fifty-nine of Indiana’s 92 counties recorded preliminary unemployment figures of 10 percent or higher as the statewide rate doubled from 5.3 percent in May 2008 and moved higher again after having edged downward last month, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development said Friday. The national jobless rate in May was 9.4 percent.
[Source: Forbes]
