17 April 2020 - Tammy Shaw (The Sentinel-News)
Unemployment is shooting upward across the nation, the commonwealth and the county due to measures to stem the flow of the novel coronavirus.
Although official Kentucky numbers lag, those released Thursday morning show the state’s preliminary unemployment rate for March 2020 at 5.8 percent, up 1.6 points from February and 1.6 points from March 2019.
But these preliminary numbers come with some confusion.