Upshur Unemployment On The Rise

Upshur jobless rate rises two tenths of a percent from September through November.

According to statistics released last week from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the county's unemployment rate is beginning to rise, tracking similar increases across the state and nationally.

This echoes warnings last week in Texas Comptroller Susan Comb's Biennial Revenue Estimate, which predicted job losses across the state through the first three quarters of 2009.

Upshur still lags the state jobless rate of 5.7%, and fares better than the national level of 6.7%.