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Hopkins County sustains lowest area jobless rate

By Scott Harvey

Hopkins County – While the jobless figures are still not where officials want them to be, Hopkins County can celebrate the fact that their rate remains the lowest of any immediate eight county region, now for the 29th consecutive month.

Figures released this week by the Texas Workforce Commission show the jobless rate in Hopkins County declined slightly from July to August, now at 6.8 percent. One year ago, that figure was 6.4 percent.

Hunt County continues to have the area's largest labor market, but their unemployment rate for August was 8.9 percent.

Elsewhere throughout the region, Lamar County was at 9 percent, Delta County 9.2, and Rains County 9.5 percent.