Kauai jobless rate at 2 percent

Kauai’s unemployment rate for January rose slightly from the previous month. 

According to state report released Friday, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for Kauai in January was 2 percent. That’s up from 1.7 percent in December, but down from 3 percent in January 2017.

The state Department of Labor & Industrial Relations announced that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for Hawaii in January was 2.1 percent, the same as December.

Statewide, 668,700 were employed and 14,400 unemployed in January. Nationally, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in January, the same as in December.

In Hawaii, gains occurred in trade, transportation, utilities, professional and business services and leisure and hospitality.