The unemployment rate in Tooele County for February was 6 percent, according to data released yesterday by the Department of Workforce Services. That rate is unchanged from the revised rate of 6 percent for January and only fractionally down from 6.1 percent in December. The unemployment rate for the state remained at 5.7 percent for both January and February.
Jim Robson, Department of Workforce Services regional economist, is not willing to point to URS, the prime contractor at the DCD, as the source for the county’s loss of employment in recent reports.
Robson said the number of people filing for unemployment benefits is one of the most accurate pictures of what is going on currently in the county. Those figures show that new Tooele County unemployment claims have dropped below claims for the last three years. Tooele Transcript
