The state Department of Labor & Industrial Relations on Thursday announced that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for March was 2.1 percent, the same for the sixth consecutive month.
The state Department of Labor & Industrial Relations on Thursday announced that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for March was 2.1 percent, the same for the sixth consecutive month.
Kauai’s jobless rate for March was 1.8 percent, the lowest in the state and the same as February. In March 2017 Kauai’s jobless rate was 2.6 percent.
Statewide, 670,500 were employed and 14,050 unemployed in March for a total seasonally adjusted labor force of 684,550.
Nationally, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in March, also the same as in October 2017 through February.
