Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images

The New York State Labor Department is releasing preliminary unemployment rates for August and it's good news for the Utica-Rome area.

The jobless rate was 7.3% last month, down from 8.2% in August of 2012.

The state's unemployment rate in August was 7.6%.

Meanwhile, the state's private sector job count increased by 126,800 from August of 2012 to August of this year.

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