(August Unemployment rate for Imperial County)....It was released Friday morning.

The jobless rate is released by the Labor Market Information Division of the Employment Development Department. According to the latest numbers, unemployment was at 20.2% in August. That is up from the 18.9 percent in July and above the year ago estimate of 20.0%. This compares to an unadjusted unemployment rate of 5.9% for California and 4.4 % for the nation during the same period.. According to the report there were 15,500 eligible workers unemployed out of a labor fore of 76,600 in Imperial County.