After several straight months of declines, including a record-low rate in May, Nevada County’s unemployment rate showed a seasonal increase in June. But it’s still only two-point-nine percent, a monthly gain of less than half-a-point. And it’s despite the fact that there were gains in all eleven job category sectors. But Luis Allejo, with the state’s Employment Development Department, points out that there was a 17-percent increase in the number of people now classified as unemployed…

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Allejo says the Leisure and Hospitality sector had the largest monthly numerical job gain of 410, which is usually expected this time of year…

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The second-biggest gain, of 230 jobs, was in the Mining, Logging, and Construction sector. Allejo also mentions that jobless rates this year are now closer to pre-pandemic levels. The June 2021 rate was still at six-point-two percent. The current rate is also the tenth-lowest among the state’s 58 counties.