Utica Rome Unemployment Rate Down In October
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