Unemployment rates throughout the Golden Triangle saw nominal improvement in March, showing an average 0.2 and 0.3% improvement from February, coinciding with both state and national rates.
Oktibbeha county took the lead with a 0.3% drop in unemployment, while Lowndes, Clay and Noxubee all fell 0.2%, according to numbers released this week by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.
Compared to a year ago, Noxubee County saw the largest improvement, from 5.3% to 4.4%. Clay and Lowndes Count fell 0.6% and 0.5%, respectively. Oktibbeha had the smallest year over year improvement, dropping 0.3% from March 2022.
On the state and national level, Mississippi fell 0.1% from 3.2% in February and the national rate fell 0.3% from 3.9%. The state rate fell 0.4% from February 2022, and the national rate fell 0.2%.
The number of unemployed people in Lowndes and Oktibbeha county fell to 770 and 820, respectively. Clay fell to 270 and Noxubee remained at 150. There are currently 1,900 unemployed people in the Golden Triangle, marking a 13.3% improvement from March 2022 (2,170)
There are currently 38,400 people unemployed throughout the state, marking a 14.2% improvement from 2022. Across the nation, there are 6,043,000 unemployed, compared to 6,168,000 in March 2022.
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