The New York State Department of Labor has released local unemployment rates for October.

The unemployment rate in the Utica-Rome area was 4.6 percent last month.  That's down from 4.8 percent in October 2015.

The state's unemployment rate increased slightly from 5-percent to 5.2 percent last month.

Meanwhile, the state has added 89,000 private sector jobs from October 2015 to October 2016

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