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PORT ANGELES – Clallam County’s unemployment rate dropped slightly last month.

According to state figures, the unemployment rate went down six tenths of a percent in April from March. It is now at 7.2 percent.

About one hundred more people filed for unemployment benefits in April compared with March.

The rate is more than one percent point higher than in April 2018.

Jefferson County’s unemployment rate is at 6.4 percent.

The statewide unemployment rate was at 4.5 percent last month.

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