CALHOUN LEADS STATE WITH UNEMPLOYMENT

(05/31/2020)

The latest unemployment numbers for West Virginia shows Calhoun leading the state. Only Mingo County had more. Calhoun has an unemployment rate of 23.6% Historically, over 25 years, Calhoun has had one of highest unemployment rates in WV, generally during the winter months when oil and gas field and construction workers would be laid-off. Now those workers are on the unemployment list for April, mostly due to a slow down of natural gas work and COVID-19. The unemployment list is based on those currently drawing unemployment, a decades long system that does not include the unemployed no longer able to get benefits. RATES FOR NEIGHBORING COUNTIES: Roane - 19.7% Wirt 16.1% Gilmer - 14.6% Braxton - 17.0% Clay - 19.6% Ritchie - 13.3%

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