| Article: | UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN IN PB, COUNTY, BUT BOTH STILL HAVE WORK TO DO Even with the unemployment rate dropping from 8.1 percent, which translates to 2,925 jobs, in June 2007 to 7.6 percent, 2,725 jobs, a year later in Jefferson County, the rate is still at least 2.3 percent higher than the statewide 5.3 percent rate, according to the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services. |