North Carolina unemployment rate continues months-long drop
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s jobless rate inched lower for a seventh month to 3.6 percent for October.The North Carolina Department of Commerce announced Friday that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was .2 percentage points lower than September’s. It’s also just shy of a 1 percentage point drop from the same month a year ago.The October rate was also slightly lower than the national rate.The number of people working in North Carolina rose […]