PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) — South Dakota’s unemployment rate is holding rock steady at two-percent, while the nation’s jobless rate has climbed from 3 1/2-percent a year ago to 4.3-percent at the end of July. The state’s two largest cities are also showing low rates that haven’t moved in the past year. Rapid City comes in at two-percent, and Sioux Falls is at 1.8-percent. Nationally, a quarter of a million more people hit the unemployment lines in July as compared to June.
State jobless rate holds steady at one of the lowest rates in the nation
By Tom Rooney
Aug 23, 2024 | 11:42 AM
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