Jobless rates continue to spike

Chesterfield County jobless numbers continue to drop in the second month of the first quarter, according to the S.C. Employment Security Commission. The county’s adjusted jobless rate of 13.2 percent is down from 14.7 recorded in January. Initially, the state recorded a 13.7 percent unemployment rate in January. Along with the drop in unemployment came fewer numbers in the labor force falling from 18,266 in January to 18,055 in February, the Commission found. Last February, the

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