Texas County’s unemployment rate dropped in February, the Missouri Department of Economic Development reports.
The figure was 9.5 percent, which was a drop of four-tenths of a percentage point.
The average in south-central Missouri was 9.9 percent.
Area counties and their jobless rates were: Douglas, 9.9; Howell, 9; Shannon, 17.1; and Wright, 10.5 percent.
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