Daviess and surrounding counties saw an increase or no change in their unemployment rate for November 2018, however, more people are working.
The Washington Time-Herald reports the paradox is apparently due to the workforce growing faster than the economy can create jobs.
Outgoing Executive Director of the Daviess County Economic Development Corporation Ron Arnold told the newspaper that the increase in workers shows what the county has been doing is working. Daviess County’s unemployment rate is 2.9% which is higher than the 2.6% at this time last year, however, 600 more people were working in November 2018 than in November 2017.
Arnold tells the Times-Herald that unemployment is still at a historic low and he believes that those looking for work is mostly a mismatch of skill levels and available jobs.