Oak Lawn Unemployment Drops Slightly Below State Average
With a fiscal cliff looming, the Department of Employment Security said last month that a solution was necessary to help improve jobless rates.
Unemployment rates in Illinois dropped slightly from October 2012 to November, to 8.2 percent, and are a full percentage point compared to 2011, according to new figures released last week. In Oak Lawn, unemployment was down slightly from October, to 8.1 percent. The figure is slightly below the Illinois average of 8.2 percent. Overall, unemployment in the village is down 1.6 points year over year. November local unemployment rates fell in 11 of 12 metro areas compared to last year, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Labor and the Illinois Department of Employment Security. "The trend of falling unemployment rates across Illinois shows that our economy continues to improve," IDES Director Jay Rowell said. "The largest …
