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The Long Island unemployment rate fell slightly in December, after a small tick upward in November.
The not-seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate for Long Island in December was 2.4 percent, down slightly from the 2.5 percent rate from November, according to preliminary numbers from the New York State Department of Labor.
The December rate of 2.4 percent was still lower than the 2.7 percent Long Island unemployment rate recorded in Dec. 2021.
The December not-seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate for Nassau County was 2.3 percent and the rate for Suffolk County was 2.6 percent, the DOL reports.
The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 4.3 percent in December, the same as it’s been for the last three months.
New York City had the highest unemployment rates in the state in November, led by the Bronx (7.5 percent); Brooklyn (5.5 percent); Staten Island (5 percent) and Queens (4.9 percent).
Nassau joined Columbia, Rockland and Saratoga counties with the state’s lowest unemployment rate in December at 2.3 percent, followed by Putnam and Tompkins counties at 2.4 percent.
