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Mentor's Unemployment Rate Dropped In February

After increasing in January, the city's unemployment rate dropped .3 percent to 6.6 percent

After increasing 1.5 percent in January, the city of Mentor's unemployment rate dropped .3 percent to 6.6 percent in February, according to the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services.

Last year, the city's unemployment rate was 7 percent in February.

The unemployment rate also dropped in Lake County and Ohio in February. Countywide, it dropped .6 percent to 7.4 percent.

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In Ohio, it decreased .8 percent to 7.6 percent.

Mentor still has the fourth lowest unemployment rate for any Ohio city with more than 50,000 residents. It trails Lakewood, Cleveland Heights and Columbus.

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Mentor's unemployment rate had dropped to 4.6 percent -- its lowest point since Nov. 2007 -- in October. But the rate jumped .8 in November.

The city's unemployment rate peaked in January and February of 2010 at 8.7 percent.


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