By PHILLIP RAWLS
Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama’s unemployment rate measured 6.3 percent for August.
The state Department of Labor says the rate is up from July’s revised figure of 6.2 percent, but it is well below the 7.5 percent rate from July 2012. It is also below the national rate of 7.3 percent.
The new figures show the number of unemployed Alabamians stayed about the same from July to August, but the number of people employed and the size of the labor force declined.