Colorado’s overall unemployment rate dropped to 2.8 percent during August, according to figures from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The drop was slight, just two-tenths of 1 percentage point. This helped push the jobless rate well below last August, when 4 percent of the state’s work force was unemployed. So far this year, the jobless rate in the state has ranged from 2.7 percent to 3.1 percent. Total employment in Colorado was up 57,000 for the first …
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…packages, including loans to make down payments on homes, in hopes they won’t look for jobs elsewhere. On the flip side, worker shortages have relegated customer service to a back shelf. Ask anyone who has waited in a line at a convenience store while a cashier trains yet another new employee. (Colden 7) So if you don’t have to wait in line too long, Denver sound like the place to seek employment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**