NYS Unemployment

NYS Unemployment

Niagara Falls is saddled with the highest unemployment rate of any city or town across New York, according to a new breakdown of statewide data.
Eleven percent of the workforce in Niagara Falls was unemployed last month, the worst rate registered by any of the 98 communities analyzed by the New York State Labor Department.
The only other cities with jobless rates in double digits are Newburgh (10.1 percent) and Rochester (10.0 percent). Buffalo has the fourth-worst unemployment rate in the state, 9.7 percent.
Orchard Park, at 5.9 percent, is the only Western New York community on the list of communities with the 10 best jobless rates in the state.
The Albany suburb of Guilderland has the state’s lowest rate, 5.0 percent.