Statewide Unemployment Numbers Released

Frankfort, KY — Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted preliminary April 2019 unemployment rate was 4 percent, that according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics, an agency within the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet. The unemployment rate for April 2019 was unchanged from March 2019. The U.S. seasonally adjusted jobless rate for April 2019 was 3.6 percent, down 0.2 percentage points from its March 2019 level, that according to the U.S. Department of Labor.