Kentucky's Workforce Continues to Shrink
Kentucky unemployment is down, but only because more workers have stopped looking for work.
The drop to 9.9 percent "continues to be a result of the decrease in the state's civilian labor force because people have become discouraged in their job search," said Ron Crouch, director of research and statistics in the state's Office of Employment and Training. "People who have not looked for a job in the last four weeks are no longer counted in the labor force."
July also marked the end of a spate of job gains. For four months, the state had added jobs each month, but in July, that reversed course to a drop of 8,000 positions.
How about that stimulus!
