Texas County’s unemployment rate was up slightly in August, reports the Missouri Department of Economic Development.
The figure was 8.5 percent, which was up four-tenths of a percentage point from July.
The average in south-central Missouri was 8.9 percent.
Area counties and their jobless rates: Douglas, 8.6; Howell, 8.1; Shannon, 12.5; and Wright, 9.2.