The unemployment rate improved to 6.5 percent for the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area, down from 7.4 percent in August and down from 8.4 percent in September 2011, according Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget data, reports the Kalamazoo Gazette. The metropolitan statistical area includes all of Kalamazoo and Van Buren counties. The unemployment rate here represents 10,600 workers without jobs in a civilian labor force of 163,200. Taken separately, the jobless rate for Kalamazoo County improved to 6.1 percent, down from 7.1 percent in August and down from 8 percent in September of 2011.
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Source: Kalamazoo Gazette
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