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Lake County's June unemployment rate was 5.9 percent, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
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Unemployment rates are up in Lake and Porter counties.
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Local unemployment rates dropped from March to April, but they remain higher than they were the same period last year.
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More Lake and Porter County residents were working in March than in February, according to the latest employment numbers released by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
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Lake County continues to have Indiana's highest unemployment rate. It rose to six percent in February, up from 5.7 percent the month before and in February of 2023. Gary, in particular, has the highest unemployment rate of any major city in Indiana at 8.2 percent, followed closely by East Chicago at 7.8 percent.
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Lake and Porter counties ended 2023 with higher unemployment rates than the prior year.
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Lake County's unemployment rate rose to five percent in November, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. That's up from 4.3 percent during the same period last year. Meanwhile, Porter County's unemployment rate was 3.7 percent, half a percentage point higher than last November.
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Lake County's unemployment rate dropped by more than a full percentage point last month, but it still remains the highest in the state. Lake County's September unemployment rate was 4.8 percent, down from 5.9 in August but up from 3.7 in September of 2022, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
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Lake County's unemployment rate continues to tick higher. The August numbers released by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development show Lake County's rate increased a tenth of a percent to 5.9 last month — an increase of nine-tenths of a percent from the same period last year.
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Lake County once again had the state's highest unemployment rate in July at 5.8 percent. That's unchanged from the month before, but a full percentage point higher than July of 2022.