(Unemployment up from the previous month)…The latest numbers are for October.

They were released recently by the Labor Market Information Division of the Employment Development Department. The October Jobless rate was listed at 21.2 percent, up from a revised 20.8 percent reported in September. That is also above the year ago estimate of 19.7 percent. This compares to an unadjusted unemployment rate of 3.7 for the state and 3.3 percent for the nation during the same period. According to the report 15,700 eligible workers were unemployed, out of a labor force of 73,800.