Mahoning Valley's unemployment figures down from June 2014


July 21, 2015 at 10:01a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning Valley’s nonseasonally adjusted jobless rate was 5.9 percent compared with 6.7 percent in June 2014.

The number of unemployed went down from 17,000 in June 2014 to 14,900 in June 2015. Employment went up from 235,700 in June 2014 to 237,100 in June 2015.

But the civilian labor force dropped from 253,000 in June 2014 to 252,000 last month.