Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted June unemployment rate was down slightly from May and down from one year ago.
The June rate was 4.4 percent, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics—down a tenth of a point from May and down 1.3 percentage points from the 5.7 percent recorded for the state one year ago when restrictions were in place to slow the spread of COVID-19.
The U.S. seasonally adjusted jobless rate for June was 5.9 percent, up from the 5.8 percent reported in May, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.