(The latest unemployment rate has been released)....The latest report is for October.

The numbers were released by the Labor Market Information Division of the Employment Development Department. According to the latest report, the Imperial County unemployment rate is exactly the same as it was in September. The jobless rate is at 16.2 percent. Unchanged from Septeber, and below the year ago estimate of 16.9 percent. This compares to an unadjusted rate of 3.8 percent for California and 3.4 percent for the Nation during the same period. According to the October report there were 11,500 elegible workers unemployed out of a labor force of 70,700. Imperial County Continues to have the highest unemployment rate in the state.