Idaho unemployment at 9.1 percent

The Idaho Department of Labor released a revised unemployment statement on Jan. 20 stating the unemployment rate in Idaho is 9.1 percent.

In spite of an increasingly negative national economic climate of 10 percent unemployment, Idaho’s total number of employed remained at just over 685,000.

The Idaho Department of Labor determined that was nearly 200 more people than originally anticipated were unemployed.

However, the newest numbers report the least amount of unemployed citizens since January 2005. The gap in total jobs continued to close in December.

It was only fractionally smaller than in November at a year-over-year loss of 5.3 percent.