Keeping on trend, Delaware’s unemployment rate continued to decrease in the last half of the year. The First State’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.1% in November, according to data released by the Delaware Department of Labor in its monthly labor review.
That’s a 0.2% decrease from October’s rate of 5.3%.
- Is that because people are actually going back to work or because their unemployment benefits ran out? Unemployment claims can go down just because people run their claim out, not to mention the thousands and thousands and thousands of fraudulent claims they were paying out. — Christopher Joyce
- Lots of jobs around Milford. — Thomas J. Chilton
