San Benito County’s unemployment rate increased with the onset of winter months, while it remains significantly lower than the same period last year.
The state’s unemployment rate decreased from 7.3 percent in September, when most recently reported before Friday’s number, to 7.2 percent in November, according to figures from the California Development Department. In San Benito County, where the seasonally unadjusted number rises each year in winter months when there is less agricultural work to do, the rate was at 8.7 percent. for the most recent month That is much less than the 9.9 percent number reported in November 2013.
In San Benito County, an estimate of 2,400 people filed for unemployment benefits in November from a workforce of 27,200, according to the EDD.
