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The New York State Department of Labor has released preliminary area unemployment rates for August.

The jobless rate for the Utica-Rome region was 6% last month, down from 7.1 percent in August of 2013.

The state's unemployment rate for August was 6-point-4%, its lowest level since late 2008.

New York state's private sector job count increased by 142,900 from August 2013 to August 2014.

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