Locally the unemployment rate dropped in December. In Clinton County the December unemployment rate was 3.9 percent – down from 4.2 in November. The number of people employed remain stable while the number considered in the workforce and unemployed both dropped by 70.
In the city of Clinton the unemployment rate was 4.4 percent in December. That was down from 4.8 percent in November. The number of people employed also remained stable while the workforce and those considered unemployed dropped.
Link: Monthly Data December 2020 
The state unemployment rate took a big drop in December. The rate went down to three-point-one percent in December — compared to three-point-eight percent in November. The number of unemployed dropped 10-thousand in December compared to in November. The current estimate is 137-thousand-200 lower than the Covid-19 peak in April of 188-thousand and only 15-hundred higher than the level of last year at this time. The state’s unemployment rate was two-point-eight percent one year ago. The U-S unemployment rate remained at six-point-seven percent in December.
