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King County, state unemployment rates fall to record lows
The crunch for workers is reaching historic levels.
In April, King County's non-adjusted unemployment rate hit 1.9% — the lowest ever recorded for the county, according to the state Employment Security Department.
In Snohomish County, the April unemployment mark dropped to 2.3%, another all-time low. At the state level, it's the same story, as Washington's unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%.
"This is historic," Anneliese Vance-Sherman, a regional labor economist for the department, told the Business Journal. "If we were just to have this in isolation, it’d be a head scratcher, but there's context to this. We’ve seen this building up."
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2022/06/02/unemployment-rate-king-county.html