Last month 965 residents from Anne Arundel County enrolled in unemployment insurance benefits - a significant departure from the 2,342 in June 2009.
But economists and work force experts say it's hard to extract meaningful information about the current economy from jobless data, an indicator that tends to lag by about six months.
Local unemployment came in at 6.9 percent of the working population for June, which is actually about 6.4 percent when adjusted for seasonal factors. That would mark a downward...
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