For Montgomery County as a whole, the jobless rate was put at 7.6 percent, an improvement from 8 percent in April and 9.3 percent in May 2011.
In Clark County, that rate was put at 6.9 percent, a slight drop from 7.3 percent in April and down again from 8.7 percent in May 2011. In Springfield, the unemployment rate was put at 7.4 percent, a slight improvement from 7.6 percent in April and a two-point improvement from 9.4 percent in May 2011.
Greene County’s jobless percentage was put at 6.8 percent, down from 7 percent in April and from 8.2 percent last May.
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