Texas County’s unemployment rate dropped slightly in September, reports the Missouri Department of Economic Development.
The figure was 8.8 percent, which was a decrease of one-tenth of a percentage point from August, the agency reported. The average in south-central Missouri was 9 percent.
Area counties and their jobless rates: Douglas, 9.8; Howell, 9.2; Oregon, 9; Shannon, 9.6; and Wright, 9.6.