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http://www.chestertontribune.com/Business/...ployment_st.htm

By KEVIN NEVERS

The Indiana and Porter County unemployment rates continued to stabilize in July, while the Chesterton unemployment rate dropped by better than half a point, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD).

On Friday the DWD released the unemployment report for July, when Indiana’s rate dropped to 10.4 percent from 10.6 percent in June. The national unemployment rate in July was 9.7 percent, unchanged from the previous month.

Indiana’s 10.4 percent unemployment rate in July is still more than two points shy of the peak of 12.8 percent posted in November 1982. Only 12 months ago, though, in July 2008, the rate stood at 6.0 percent.

In Porter County, meanwhile, the unemployment rate in July fell to 9.2 percent from 9.6 percent in June. Across Porter County 7,797 people were looking for work in July, compared to 8,302 in June, a decrease of 6.08 percent (an increase of 107.7 percent since July 2008).

In Lake County the unemployment rate in July was 10.5 percent, unchanged since June (6.0 percent in July 2008). In LaPorte County the unemployment rate in July dropped to 11.4 percent from 11.6 percent in June (5.4 percent in July 2008).

Chesterton

In Chesterton, however, the unemployment rate in July fell by more than half a point to 9.7 percent from 10.4 percent in June. A total of 674 people in Chesterton was looking for work in July, compared to 743 in June, a decrease of 9.28 percent (an increase of 140.7 percent since July 2008). That fall in the number of people looking for work in July is at least partly attributable to a decrease in the total labor force in Chesterton from June to July of 2.7 percent.

Data for the towns of Porter and Burns Harbor were not available.

In Valparaiso the unemployment rate in July fell to 8.0 percent from 8.2 percent in June (4.1 percent in July 2008). A total of 1,257 people in Valparaiso was looking for work in July, compared to 1,303 in June, a decrease of 3.53 percent (an increase of 91.3 percent since July 2008).

In Portage the unemployment rate in July dropped to 10.9 percent from 11.4 percent in June (5.5 percent in July 2008). A total of 2,039 people in Portage was looking for work in July, compared to 2,194 in June, a decrease of 7.06 percent (an increase of 100.5 percent since July 2008).

Elsewhere:

*In Gary the rate rose in July to 12.4 percent from 12.1 percent in June (8.0 percent in July 2008).

*In East Chicago the rate rose in July to 15.3 percent from 12.7 percent in June (9.8 percent in July 2008).

*In Hammond the rate fell in July to 11.7 percent from 11.9 percent in June (6.9 percent in July 2008).

*In Michigan City the rate fell in July to 12.1 percent from 12.4 percent in June (6.6 percent in July 2008).

*In LaPorte the rate fell in July to 12.1 percent from 12.2 percent in June (5.3 percent in July 2008).

　



Posted 9/9/2009