PA. STATE UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS FOR DECEMBER ADJUSTED

Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate for December has been adjusted.  State officials say earlier preliminary results showed a record low rate of three-point-nine-percent in the final month of 2022.  However, no records appear to have been set.  A news release from the state Department of Labor & Industry shows an adjusted rate of four point three percent in December.  L and I says the revised data shows 281-thousand people were looking for jobs then, instead of the 254-thousand that had been reported.