Alabama's Sept. 2012 unemployment figures released
- Lee County's unemployment rate fell from 7.4 percent to 6.4 percent.
- This drop continued a trend that began in the summer of falling jobless numbers. In June the rate was 8.1 percent before falling to 8 percent in July and then 7.4 percent in August. In Spetmeber 2011, the rate was 8.8 percent.
- Lee County is tied with Limestone and Madison counties for the third-lowest unemployment rate. Only Shelby (5.2) and Coffee (6.2) counties rank ahead of Lee.
- The state's rate fell from 8..5 percent to 8.3 percent. At this time last year, the state's jobless rate was 8.8 percent.
- Lee County sticks out of a belt of nine East Alabama counties in having a rate lower than 9 percent: Tallapoosa (9.1), Chambers (9.6), Randolph (9.7), Clay (9.8), Russell (9.9), Macon (10), Barbour (11.8) and Bullock (15.8).
- "More Alabamians are working this month and that is certainly good news for the state," said Gov. Robert Bentley Courtesy of the Governor's Press Office
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