KY's Feb. jobless rates fall in 2/3 of state

WKMS | By Todd Hatton

Published March 28, 2013 at 10:49 AM CDT

Kentucky’s February unemployment numbers show jobless rates fell in more than two-thirds of the state over the previous year. Rates either dropped or increased slightly in Purchase and Pennyrile counties. According to the Office of Employment and Training report released Thursday, only two western counties, Daviess and Union, were among the ten lowest in the state at just over seven percent. Fulton County was the fifth highest at almost sixteen percent. The national unemployment rate for February was eight point one.

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Todd Hatton

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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