WV Jobless Rates
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Posted: 4:07 PM May 18, 2008
WV Jobless Rates
It's a topic both political parties are talking about- in some Mid-Ohio Valley counties job unemployment is at a high.
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It's a topic both political parties are talking about- in some Mid-Ohio Valley counties job unemployment is at a high.

Ritchie, Mason and Tyler counties are reporting unemployment rates above the states overall 5.2 percent rate.

Ritichie county's umeployment rate was 7.3 while Mason and Tyler were both at 7.4.
Pocahontas County has the states highest rate at 11.9.

According to the Worforce West Virginia website, Wood County is just above the state rate at 5.4.

Monongalia County again posted the state's lowest unemployment rate with a jobless rate of 3.3 percent.
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