(Imperial County Unemployment down)…This, according to the latest numbers.

The latest numbers are for February. They were released Friday morning by the Labor Market Information Division of the Employment Development Department. The February jobless rate came in at 17.1 percent, down from a revised 18.0 percent in January, but slightly above the year ago estimate of 17.0 percent. This compares with an unadjusted unemployment rate of 4.3 percent for the state and 3.8 percent for the nation during the same period. In February there were 12,300 eligible workers unemployed, out of a labor force of 71,500.