Climbing 1.7 percentage points in October, Fulton County, Pennsylvania has just obtained the highest unemployment rate in the state, according to preliminary figures released by the Department of Labor and Industry.

Last month, Fulton County ranked in the number 65 position in the state, but in August Fulton County also had the highest employment rate in the state at 9.2 percent, according to final figures for that month.

Although its rare, August and October of this year are not the first times the county has ranked 67th in unemployment. In August of 1982, Fulton County's unemployment rate was at 25.7 percent, the highest in the state, said spokesman Justin Fleming of Pennsylvania's Department of Labor & Industry's Center for Workforce Information and Analysis He also said that the last time Fulton County's rate was higher than 10.2 percent was in August 1997, when it was 19.7 percent.

Fulton County's current unemployment rates are markedly higher than both the state and national rates.

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