After a slight drop, Nevada County’s unemployment rate went up slightly in August. At four-point-two percent, that was a three-tenths-of-a-point rise from July. But it was also nearly a point higher than a year ago. Meanwhile, at the local office of the Alliance for Workforce Development, Business Services Representative, Maryanne Connelley, says the most available jobs recently have involved physical labor, especially outdoors…

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Connelley says the Alliance also recently received a grant to hire six people for temporary work in the Tahoe National Forest…

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The biggest sector employment drop contributing to the jobless rate increase was Wholesale Trade, or six-percent. But there was a six-percent climb in Government jobs. And there was no change in the number of Construction and Leisure and Hospitality jobs. Nevada County still had the 15th-lowest rate among the 58 counties and was also a point lower than the state’s rate.