Cass County’s unemployment rate has gone down, said Logansport-Cass County Economic Development Foundation President Skip Kuker.
At the LEDF Board meeting Friday, Kuker announced that the unemployment rate for March had fallen to 5.7 percent from 6.1 percent in February 2007. It was also down from the previous year’s level of 6 percent.
Kuker said it is the lowest unemployment rate for the month of March in six years. The number of unemployed persons was 1,057, which is the lowest in over seven years. Those figures rank Cass County 41st among the 92 counties in the state.
The unemployment rate for the state of Indiana fell by .3 percent from February to March.
